Epstein, Mitch, 1952- artist.

New York Arbor--Mitch Epstein / [edited by Susan Bell and Ryan Spencer].

First edition.

Göttingen : Steidl, 2013.

42 leaves of plates, 6 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 37 cm, in slipcase

Mitch Epstein's new work is a series of photographs of the idiosyncratic trees that inhabit New York City. These pictures underscore the importance of trees to urban life and their complex relationship to their human counterparts. Rooted in New York's sidewalks, parks, and cemeteries, some trees grow wild, some are contortionists adapting to constrictive surroundings, while others are pruned into prize specimens. As urban development closes in on them, surprisingly, New York's trees continue to thrive. From 2011 to 2012, Epstein explored New York's five boroughs in search of remarkable trees, often returning to photograph the same trees through the changing seasons and light. Many of these trees, Epstein learnt, were planted in one context--a farm or nursery, for instance--and had survived to be part of another, a city street or public garden; and most will likely outlive us to find their habitat continue to change. The cumulative effect of these photographs is to invert people's usual view of their city: trees no longer function as background, but instead dominate the human life and architecture around them.

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Trees New York (State) New York Pictorial works.
Nature photography.
Wildlife photography.
Arbres New York (État) New York Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie de la nature.
nature photography.
Trees
Trees New York (State) New York
Photography of trees New York (State) New York
New York (State) New York

Pictorial works

Bell, Susan, editor.
Spencer, Ryan, editor.

Mitch Epstein

Location: Library main m 284025
Call No.: BIB 222621
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 284266
Call No.: BIB 222621
Copy: slipcase
Status: Available