Mitch Epstein, New National Academician
Mitch Epstein helped pioneer fine-art color photography in the 1970s. More than 50 years later, he continues to use his work to explore social issues and question what it means to be American.
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Pat Steir’s Silent Secret Waterfalls Share their Inner Life at the Barnes
Today’s artists, curators, and critics often assert that works of art themselves actively explore elements of human society, trouble conventional wisdom, demand that their audience consider specific issues, or otherwise directly affect their viewers and the world around them.
