Emmet Gowin
RISD MFA '67 [Photography]
American photographer who studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. Reminiscent of his teacher Harry Callahan's
classic images of his wife Eleanor, Gowin early on focused often on his
own wife Edith, in tranquil rural settings. He sometimes used a snapshot
technique, attaining a circular pinhole‐like image by mounting a 10.2 ×
12.7 cm (4 × 5 in) camera lens on a 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in) body.
Later he created quietly evocative black‐and‐white aerial photographs
of man‐scarred landscapes, from the USA to Czechoslovakia.
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