中文简介：

在20世纪70年代和90年代之间，米奇·爱泼斯坦（Mitch Epstein）拍摄了定义20世纪末美国的过度和疏离、欢快和欲望的仪式。这些照片标志着他对美国精神和风景的摄影探索的开始，这一探索如今已经持续了半个世纪。本书捕捉到了现代美国在智能手机出现前，不那么自我意识的时代的活力。在这些早期作品中，爱泼斯坦的智慧占据了主导地位，他以独特的方式让平凡的东西变得惊奇，让非凡的东西显得完美无缺。Steidl出版社于2005年首次出版此书，这个新版本在原版的基础上进行了扩展，其中超过三分之一的照片从未出版过，所有照片都经过重新加工，以保持那个时代的电影画质。

英文简介：

Between the 1970s and '90s, Mitch Epstein photographed the rituals of excess and alienation, jubilance and desire that defined late twentieth-century America. These pictures marked the beginning of his photographic inquiry into the American psyche and landscape that has now lasted half a century. Recreation captures the vitality of modern America in a pre-smartphone, less self-conscious time. In these early works, Epstein's wit reigns, along with his singular way of making the mundane startle and the extraordinary appear to perfectly fit in.This new edition expands on the original Recreation book published by Steidl in 2005. More than a third of these photographs have never been published, and all of them have been re-worked with fidelity to the pictorial quality of the films of the era.