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Throughout his prolific career as a photographer, Emmet Gowin has threaded together seemingly disparate subjects: his wife, Edith, and their extended family; American and European landscapes; aerial views of environmental devastation, brought together by his ongoing interest in issues of scale, the impact of the individual, and notions of belonging. This long-awaited survey pays tribute to Gowin's remarkable career and his impact on the medium. Following his marriage to Edith Morris in 1964, Gowin began work on a series of images of his extended family that is now recognized as a touchstone of twentieth-century American photography. He photographed the children and the aging parents, and made intimate portraits of his wife, continuing a photographic tradition inherited from his mentor, Harry Callahan, with whom he studied in the 1960s. His focus broadened in the 1980s, when he began an exploration of landscape and aerial photography, most specifically in his documentation of Mount St. Helens and the American West. He has photographed in the Czech Republic, Italy, Mexico, Japan and the United States, with a continued interest in irrigation, mining and natural resources, and the effects of military testing on the environment. As a photography professor at Princeton University from 1973 to 2009, Gowin has exerted a powerful influence on several generations of photographers.
Emmet Gowin (born 1941) earned his MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1967, after studying graphic design as an undergraduate. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Corcorcan Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Escape Photographie Marie de Paris. Gowin has published more than six monographs, and has been awarded several honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the Pew Fellowship for the Arts and the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching.

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• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Aperture (October 31, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597112615
• ISBN-13: 978-1597112611
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The first photography monograph I ever bought was Emmet Gowin's book published in 1976--I found a shelf worn copy in a bookstore in Philadelphia--I didn't realize it was missing the dust jacket--and paid $18 (a lot for me on my starvation wage graduate student budget). I loved the photographs, but was stunned by the fact that the colophon contained a discussion of the font used in the text, but nowhere in the volume was any information given about the cameras used to make the pictures. Obviously, this was not Ansel Adams.

Many of the photographs from that book are included in this new volume--as are many of the images from his long out of print 1993 Philadelphia Museum of Art book--but this volume contains new pictures--some aerial landscapes that might be in color (and might be digital?), new images of Edith, aging (as all of us do), but still vibrant and interesting--

Gowin began photographing in the 1960's when black and white materials were the only way to make permanent images--but there are always colors even in those materials--Gowin had explored the use of toners and bleaching to extend the black and white print to create emotional effects in his photographs--

I once had the privilege of attending a workshop by Gowin (now 20 years ago)--this volume includes a transcript of a lecture he gave on his retirement--a pleasure to read--but what I remember from Gowin's discussion at the workshop was a comment he made about a student who wanted to discuss lenses--"The problem with most photographers isn't how sharp their lenses are, it's that they don't love enough". This new volume contains ample evidence of what Gowin loves: his family, and the earth.