Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Great black and white photographers PART 2
Emmet Gowin is an american photographer. He was born in 1941 in Danville, Virginia. He graduated from Richmond Professional Institute in 1965. After graduating, he attended the Rhode Island School of Design. While earning his MFA, he studied under influential American photographers Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. He retired from teaching at Princeton University at the end of 2009, and lives with his wife Edith in Pennsylvania. He started to gain attention from his portraits of his wife and family. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1979, and Pew Fellowships in the Arts in 1994. He has posted multiple books, one titled "Emmet Gowin: Photographs", and another one titled "Emmet Gowin: changing the earth : aerial photographs".
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