Emmet Gowin
Emmet Gowin (born 1941 in Danville, Virginia)[citation needed] is an American photographer.[1]
After graduating from Richmond Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University) in 1965, Gowin attended the Rhode Island School of Design. While earning his MFA, Gowin studied under influential American photographers Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.
Gowin retired from teaching at Princeton University at the end of 2009[1][2] and lives in Pennsylvania with his wife Edith.
[edit] Career
Gowin first gained attention with his intimate portraits of his wife, Edith and family. His almost exclusive use of a large format camera led to both optical and darkroom experiments. Using a 4×5 lens with an 8×10 camera allowed Gowin to expose the full image circle, surrounded by a dramatic vignette, in his family portraits and rural landscapes.
Beginning with a trip to Washington state soon after Mt. Saint Helens erupted, Gowin began taking aerial photographs. For the next twenty years, Gowin captured strip mining sites, nuclear testing fields, large-scale agricultural fields and other scars in the natural landscape.
Gowin received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1979, and Pew Fellowships in the Arts in 1994.
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b "A Ravaging Beauty; In Emmet Gowin's Aerial Photos, No Depredation Goes to Waste". Washington Post. November 10, 2002. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/234823861.html?dids=234823861:234823861&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Nov+10%2C+2002&author=Jo+Ann+Lewis&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=A+Ravaging+Beauty%3B+In+Emmet+Gowin%27s+Aerial+Photos%2C+No+Depredation+Goes+to+Waste&pqatl=google.
- ^ HIS ART IMITATES SCIENCE - AND LIFE PHOTOGRAPHER EMMET GOWIN'S SHOW AT THE ART MUSEUM REVEALS A DEEP COMMITMENT TO HIS FAMILY AND HIS WORK.
[edit] External links
- George Eastman House Emmet Gowin Series
- Emmet Gowin at Museum of Contemporary Photography
- "Emmet Gowin", Sally Gall, BOMB 58, Winter 1997
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