Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait

Posted on | October 27, 2009 | No Comments

I (in collaboration with Deirdre Visser) have work in this show along with Accra Shepp, Victor Masayesva, Jr., etc. Check it out if you’re in the area.

Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait

October 24, 2009-February 21, 2010

VISIT Princeton University Art Museum Princeton, NJ 08544 609-258-3788
OPEN Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,
Thursday, 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., and Sunday, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.

http://www.princetonartmuseum.org/events/Extended_Pages/Gowin09/

The exhibition celebrates the ongoing creative career of a great artist and legendary Princeton professor who retires at the end of 2009. Emmet Gowin is held in the highest esteem as a photographer of the family (his own), the man-altered landscape of the nuclear era, and details of nature that he observes with the close, unsparing scrutiny of a true lover. Among the photographs in the exhibition will be works by Gowin’s mentors; work by Gowin himself ranging in time from his student years to the present; prints he has contributed to the Spring Portfolio produced annually by Princeton’s advanced photography students since 1987; and photographs by twenty students from throughout Gowin’s thirty-five years at Princeton.

The students have gone on to pursue paths as diverse as anthropology, graphic design, activism, and fine art, but all of them locate the roots of their inspiration in Gowin’s depthless faith in the power of photography as a medium, a discipline, and a way of life.

Emmet

Emmet Gowin, ca. 1982

Sam Fentress, American, born 1955

Gelatin silver print

Collection of Emmet Gowin

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Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait