January 17 through April 4, 2004
Fred Beans Gallery
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Emmet Gowin, Old Hanford City Site and the Columbia River, Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Near Richland, Washington, 1986 |
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One of Bucks County's best-known living artists, Emmet Gowin began his
distinguished career making intimate, evocative photographs of his wife and
family. He started to make aerial photographs in 1980 as part of a commission
to document the massive eruption of Mount St. Helens. Since then, Gowin has
created hundreds of compelling aerial images of military test sites, farmland,
battlefields, mining areas, and missile silos in such far-flung locations as
Oregon's Columbia River, Kuwait, and the Czech Republic.
Organized by the Yale University Art Gallery, this major exhibition was the
first comprehensive exploration of Gowin's aerial work.
Sponsored by Branch Valley Associates, Inc., Feeney's Nursery,
Keller Williams Real Estate, Doylestown, Worth & Company, Inc.
Catalogue
The show was accompanied by a handsome, fully-illustrated book by Jock Reynolds,
published in association with Yale University. In this exquisitely produced
volume, Reynolds provides an overview of Gowin's aerial photography and places
it in the context of his earlier work and that of such photographers as Carleton
Watkins, Alred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, and Frederick Sommer. Member's price:
$40.50; Non-member's price: $45.00. To order, contact the Denoon Museum Shop at
215.340.9800, ext 117 or
denoonshop@michenerartmuseum.org
Emmet Gowin, Drainage Ditches in a Low Agricultural Field, Savannah River Nuclear Site, SC, 1992, toned gelatin silver print, Collection of the Yale University Art Gallery
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