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Between 2003 and 2008, photographer Mitch Epstein traveled the U.S. — Mississippi, West Virginia, Hawaii, and beyond — chronicling the uniquely American relationship with (some might argue enslavement to) energy. Coal, nuclear, hydro, oil: in Epstein’s work, the energy sources that power America also call into question the country’s moral and political place in the world. In an afterward to his book, American Power, Epstein writes of “the corporate avarice and environmental indifference” he encountered while creating his pictures, and says that he “tried to convey … the beauty and terror of early 21st century America, as it clings to past comforts and gropes for a more sensible future.”
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