{"product_id":"mitch-epstein-property-rights","title":"Mitch Epstein: Property Rights","description":"Who owns the land, by whose authority, and with what rights? These questions led Mitch Epstein to make \u003ci\u003eProperty Rights\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of photographs and short texts examining the American government's ongoing legacy of property confiscation, and how communities gather to resist. Epstein began this 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn keeping with Epstein's 50-year exploration of American life, \u003ci\u003eProperty Rights\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eProperty Rights\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42664684650532,"sku":"9783958299016","price":130.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9783958299016.jpg?v=1777408807","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/mitch-epstein-property-rights","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}