Emily Anne Epstein

If you weren’t able to stop by the Left Forum at Pace University last weekend, you may have thought you missed out on my photographs.  Well you didn’t!  The event was extremely successful, breaking last year’s record of 3,000 attendees.  Noam Chomsky was the closing speaker and the theme for 2010 was “The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination.”
My essay was titled “Socialist Still Life”

Located in the premier area of downtown, the Bauen has everything a hotel could need- a bustling cafe, ornate rooms and a dramatic history.  What makes the Bauen special is that it’s not just a hotel- it’s a cooperative. After Argentina’s financial crisis in 2001, the owners left town, leaving the workers unemployed and the hotel vacant.  In March of 2003, the former employees took action and reclaimed the business for themselves.   They made repairs and beds and before long, the doors were open.  Since then, battles in court have rocked the Bauen, but it remains one of the flagships of recuperated business.  Despite international coverage, guests are not always aware that they are staying in a hotel that exists due to an exciting economic and social reform.   I chose to focus on the experience of the unknowing guest- photographing objects, rooms and lightly touching upon the invisible laborers, in order to show the subtleties of this remarkable place.

• Robert Frank was hysterical. #
• New Essay on Getty Images: Cooperative in Crisis- The Bauen Hotel http://bit.ly/1oRemr #
• Fifteen cavities. True story. #
• the sun should rise with me #

Piero Umiliani – Le Isole dell’Amore http://emilyanneepstein.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Piero-Umiliani-Le-Isole-Dellamore-01-Le-Isole-Dellamore.mp3
::welovekingkong::

• Can you find the emily anne epsteins in this fine art group exhibit? http://fstopmagazine.com/groupexhibit.html #

As seen in F-stop Magazine

• Re-release of the Habitat Premiere: http://bit.ly/1XMCex (It's Alive!) #
• World premiere of my video for Habitat for Humanity: http://bit.ly/fvEJj (Flash ESSENTIAL) #

http://www.emilyanneepstein.com/wp-content/uploads/habitat_cd.flv
Finally finished! The long awaited audio slideshow I made for Habitat for Humanity Argentina!

• Happy New Year! #
• is a new yorker again! #

• On CUArts! http://bit.ly/ZPruv #
• Dia del Gaudi! #

• Barcelona!! #
• Just did a new edit of my Ground Zero Photo essay- check it out: http://emilyanneepstein.com/photographs/groundzero/ #
• hanging all over #
• the worms come in, the worms come out. #
• wow. i just showed my portfolio to the cafe owner and got a free dinner in exchange. i like visa and perpignan! #
• Apparently, lawyers are funny too- http://www.legalnews.net/quotes/wilee.htm #