American Power: Mitch Epstein's energy photographs

BP Carson refinery, California, 2007. Mitch Epstein has spent five years travelling round the US as an 'energy' tourism, photographing every type of power station Photograph: Black River Productions/Mitch Epstein, 2009

Amos coal power plant, Winfield, West Virginia 2007. His pictures, he says, show the 'beauty and terror of early 21st-century America as it clings to past comforts and gropes for a more sensible future'
Photograph: Black River Productions/Mitch Epstein, 2009

Altamont Pass wind farm, California, 2005. Epstein photographed coal mines, solar arrays, oilfields, half-empty dams, smokestacks, fuel cells, nuclear plants and pipelines Photograph: Black River Productions/Mitch Epstein, 2009

Altamont Pass wind farm, California, 2007. Epstein also photographed many of the things that the Earth's most energy-profligate nation does with that power - such as build golf courses in the desert Photograph: Black River Productions/Mitch Epstein, 2009

Amos coal power plant, Raymond City, West ­Virginia, 2004
Photograph: Mitch Epstein 2009/Black River Productions

Biloxi, Mississippi, 2005
Photograph: Black River Productions/Mitch Epstein, 2009

Chalmette oil refinery, New Orleans, ­Louisiana, 2007
Photograph: Black River Productions/Mitch Epstein, 2009

Hanford nuclear reservation, Washington, 2006
Photograph: Black River Productions/Mitch Epstein, 2009

Ocean Warwick oil platform, Dauphine ­Island, Alabama, 2005
Photograph: Black River Productions/Mitch Epstein, 2009

Rancho Seco ­nuclear power plant, ­Herald, California, 2005. American Power, by Mitch Epstein, is published by Steidl, £36
Photograph: Black River Productions/Mitch Epstein, 2009