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Property rights / Mitch Epstein.

by Epstein, Mitch, 1952- photographer.

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Göttingen : Steidl, 2021.

Epstein, Mitch, 1952-

Photography, Artistic.

Right of property -- United States.

3958299016 (hardcover)

9783958299016 (hardcover) :

285 pages : color illustrations ; 32 x 29 cm

Prologue -- Standing Rock -- Borderlands -- Lancaster Stand -- Fires and Floods -- Mauna Kea -- Tree of Life -- Black Lives Matter -- Monuments -- Property Rights.

Who owns the land, by whose authority, and with what rights? Mitch Epstein examines the American government's ongoing legacy of property confiscation, and how communities gather to resist. Epstein began his latest series in 2017 at Standing Rock, where thousands protested the installation of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Sioux land. Over four years, he charted other contested lands from Pennsylvania and Hawaii to the Mexican border, as well as land loss through wildfires and flooding due to egregious environmental negligence. In keeping with Epstein's 50-year exploration of American life, Property Rights questions the relationship between institutions, civil rights and the rights of nature itself. Acknowledging our bodies and lives as our most fundamental property, the book examines other forms of trespass and destruction in an elegy to the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre, and in photographs of Black Lives Matter protests during COVID-19. Property Rights includes the voices of activists Epstein interviewed while making this deeply personal and political work. In a time of alarming division, the book describes diverse communities in a common fight against politicians and plutocrats willing to sacrifice the people's well-being.

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