Emmet Gowin Photographs (FIRST EDITION)

Emmet Gowin
Emmet Gowin Photographs (FIRST EDITION)

Photographs: Emmet Gowin

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

101 pages

Year: 1976

Price: 70 €

Comments: Softcover, 25,2 x 23,1 cm, b&w photographs. First edition of 1976. In good condition, scratch on the cover and edgewear, inside marked. Text in English.

"In 1964, I entered into a family freshly different from my own. I admired their simplicity and generosity, and thought of the pictures I made as agreements. I wanted to pay attention to the body and personality that had agreed out of love to reveal itself."

- Emmet Gowin

Following his marriage to Edith Morris in 1964, Emmet Gowin began taking memorable portraits of his wife and extended family in Virginia. Emmet Gowin Photographs presents a collection of 68 of these images, accompanied by a short personal text by the photographer. Inspired by the work of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Harry Callahan and Frederick Sommer, Gowin approaches his subjects with a reverence for the relationship between photographer and sitter. Although his photographs often resemble home snapshots, he aspires to take pictures that succeed as more than just family records, in some cases allowing the camera lens to dictate the circular shape of the image.