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Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth, Aerial Photographs [SIGNED by Gowin]

GOWIN, Emmet, REYNOLDS, Jock, WILLIAMS, Terry Tempest, BROOKMAN, Philip

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Art Gallery, in association with The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut and London, 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0300093616
Condition: Fine / Fine
Item #: 113727

$250.00

Specifics

First edition, first printing. Signed by Gowin. Hardcover. Fine linen cloth, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Emmet Gowin. Edited by Joyce Ippolito. Essays by Jock Reynolds and Terry Tempest Williams, and an interview with Emmet Gowin by Philip Brookman. Designed by Katy Homans. 164 pp., with 92 quadtone plates, beautifully printed by Meridian Printing, Rhode Island from digital separations made by Robert J. Hennessey. 13 x 11 inches. This first edition was limited to 8000 hardbound copies.

Published on the occasion of the 2002 exhibition Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth, Aerial Photographs, curated by Jock Reynolds, at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut (traveled to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and numerous other venues).

Condition

Fine in Fine dust jacket. A Near Mint copy.

Description

From the publisher: "Emmet Gowin has been taking aerial photographs of the landscape in the United States, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Asia, and the Middle East for over twenty years. In his most compelling photographs, one witnesses how man's footprint has visually scarred and continually altered the earth's surface. This extraordinary book, published in conjunction with the first major touring exhibition of Gowin's photographs in over ten years, focuses on images created after 1986. That was the year Gowin began to extend his aerial photography explorations in America by recording images of military test sites, missile silos, ammunition storage and disposal facilities, coal mining, pivot irrigation, offroad motor traffic, and more. The book also surveys his more recent works, which focus on other regions of the world, including the battlefields of Kuwait, new golf courses in Japan, and the chemo-petrol industries of the Czech Republic. Gowin's richly toned black and white images have been characterized as "immorally gorgeous," since at a distance even his most disturbing images can appear to be beautiful. In this exquisitely produced volume, Jock 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, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, and Frederick Sommer. Philip Brookman illuminates Gowin's recent work in the Czech Republic, while Terry Tempest Williams discusses Gowin's images from the American West, especially his Nevada Test Site series."