Born in Danville, Virginia in 1941,
Emmet Gowin is Professor of Photography in the Council of the
Humanities, Princeton University, and has been teaching in the Visual
Arts Program since 1973. In 1990, a retrospective of his work,
Emmet Gowin/Photographs: This
Vegetable Earth Is But A Shadow, was
published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A recipient of a
Guggenheim (1974) and two NEA Fellowships (1977 and 1979), he has
also received awards from the Southeastern Center for Contemporary
Art (1983), the Seattle Arts Commission (1980), the 1983 Governor's
Award for Excellence in the Arts from the State of Pennsylvania, the
1992 Friends of Photography Peer Award, and a Pew Fellowship in the
Arts for 1993-94. He received the President's Award for Distinguished
Teaching at Princeton University in 1997. His work is represented by
Pace Wildenstein MacGill Gallery in New York. His most recent
publication is Changing the Earth,
with Jock Reynolds, Terry Tempest
Williams, and Phillip Brookman, published by Yale University Press
(2002).
Photograph by Charlie
Lyons
