American photographer Mitch Epstein has published seven books of his works, including Family Business (2003) and Recreation: American Photographs 1973–1988 (2005). His photographs are found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Among his many awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship (2003) and the Berlin Prize in Arts and Letters (2007–2008). Epstein has also been a director, cinematographer, and production designer on several films, including Dad, Salaam Bombay! and Mississippi Masala. He lives in New York City.
For many years, Amiram Erev worked as a photographer for Solel Boneh, the large Israeli construction company founded by the Histadrut, Israel’s General Federation of Labor. The company played a key…
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