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Emmet Gowin
(From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia)
Emmet Gowin (born 1941 in Danville,
Virginia) is an American photographer.
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 teaches at Princeton University and lives in Pennsylvania with his
wife Edith.
Gowin first gained attention with his intimate portraits of his wife and
family. His almost exclusive use of a large format camera led to both
optical and darkroom experiments. Using a 4x5 lens with an 8x10 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.
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Ruth
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Edith, c.1968
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Edith, Dayton, Ohio
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Nancy
Danville, Virginia
1965
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Edith and Ruth
Danville, Virginia
1966
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Nancy
Danville, Virginia
1969
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Willie Cooper
Danville, Virginia
1970
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Edith
Danville, Virginia
1970
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Edith and Rennie Booher
Danville, Virginia
1970
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Family
Danville, Virginia
1970
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Edith
Danville, Virginia
1971
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Edith
Danville, Virginia
1971
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Edith
Danville, Virginia
1971
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Edith
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Edith
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Edith
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Edith
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Rennie Booher
Danville, Virginia
1972
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Edith and Elijah
Pennsylvania
1974
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Geography pages
1974
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Spring Snow
Danville, Virginia
1974
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Edith, Ruth, and Mae, Danville, Virginia
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Danville, Virginia, 1966
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Child by dead tree
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Danville, Virginia, 1967
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Barry & Dwayne, Danville, VA
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Barry & Dwayne, Danville, VA
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Ralph and fire, Danville, Virginia
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Porch Post
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Near Chatham, Virginia
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Nancy and Dwayne, 1970
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