Emmet Gowin: Photographs. Text by Martha Chahroudi. Philadelphia Museum of Art/ Bulfinch Press, Boston, 1990. 127 pp. Squarish quarto. INSCRIBED on preliminary page: "To ____ in friendship and with a handshake/19 January 1993/Emmet Gowin". Clothbound in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Numerous halftone illustrations.
Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, this handsome volume provides a retrospective look at the first 25 years of Emmet Gowin's career. From his early (and continuing) series of intimate photographs of his wife, children, and extended family, on through his later landscape work-- including images of Mt. St. Helens, Ireland, and the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, as well as several stunning aerial photographs-- this mid-career monograph provides an comprehensive sampling of Gowin's work.
Fine in Near Fine+ dust jacket; slight wear and touch of abrasion upper edge of dust jacket. |
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