DATE: March 14, 2009
Emmet Gowin, Edith, Ruth and Mae, Danville, Virginia, 1967. ©Emmet and Edith Gowin.
Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New YorkThe prime subject of these small black-and-white prints is Gowin's immediate family and their rural Virginia home, but they're hardly conventional pictures of the wife and kids. Edith Gowin, one of photography's great muses, looks like a Dorothea Lange sharecropper, so her frequent, entirely matter-of-fact nudity is startling. With Edith as a collaborator, Gowin probed family intimacy and its undertow of eroticism as well as the quotidian wonders of country life, inspiring Sally Mann, Andrea Modica, and a host of others.
From The New Yorker.
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Review: Emmet Gowin at Pace/MacGill
The reissue of Gowin's first book of photographs prompts this exhibition of images from that 1976 monograph.
Emmet Gowin, Edith, Ruth and Mae, Danville, Virginia, 1967. ©Emmet and Edith Gowin.
Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New YorkFrom The New Yorker.
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