In Mitch Epstein’s Images, a Nation’s Thirst for Energy – NYTimes.com

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Trent
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Capturing a Nation’s Thirst for Energy

The photographer Mitch Epstein routinely came under suspicion while taking pictures of dams and power plants for his new book, “American Power.”

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/arts/design/10epstein.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

The photographer Mitch Epstein, thin and professorial with gray hair and glasses, does not exactly cut a menacing figure. When he ducks beneath the dark cloth of his 8-by-10 view camera, the words that come most readily to mind are late Victorian, not potentially violent.