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Mitch Epstein: Family Business - by Susan Bell (Hardcover)

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  • An American Dream destroyed: how a fire and one family's financial demise echoed the city of Holyoke's rapid declineIn the summer of 1999, two boys barely in their teens were so bored that they started a fire in a boarded-up apartment building in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
  • Author(s): Susan Bell
  • 288 Pages
  • Photography, Individual Photographers

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An American Dream destroyed: how a fire and one family's financial demise echoed the city of Holyoke's rapid decline

In the summer of 1999, two boys barely in their teens were so bored that they started a fire in a boarded-up apartment building in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The fire spread and engulfed an entire city block. Mitch Epstein's father owned the building and was sued for $15 million, which he didn't have. Epstein's father also owned a once successful furniture store that now faced liquidation. Family Business is an epic work about the demise of a Jewish immigrant dynasty. It traces the fall of a New England town from industrial giant to drug-dealing capital in four chapters: "Store," "Property," "Town" and "Home." As Andy Grundberg wrote in the New York Times Book Review, "This book elegantly and eloquently traces the decline of Holyoke, Massachusetts, a once prosperous industrial town, through the poignant example of Mitch Epstein's own family's declining fortunes and psychological disintegration."
Surprising, hard-hitting and haunting, the book includes photographs, video storyboards and stills, interviews and dialogues. In Family Business, Epstein has invented a unique mixed-media novel whose conceptual ambitions are matched by its fearless humanity. This is the 20th anniversary edition of a seminal photobook, which quickly became a model of complex visual storytelling.

Dimensions (Overall): 14.0 Inches (H) x 10.5 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 288
Genre: Photography
Sub-Genre: Individual Photographers
Publisher: Steidl
Theme: Artists' Books
Format: Hardcover
Author: Susan Bell
Language: English
Street Date: November 18, 2025
TCIN: 91858574
UPC: 9783969993361
Item Number (DPCI): 247-00-9020
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 1 inches length x 10.5 inches width x 14 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 1 pounds
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