{"product_id":"gowin-emmet-the-one-hundred-circle-farm-by-emmet-gowin","title":"Gowin, Emmet.  The One Hundred Circle Farm by Emmet Gowin.","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrinceton University Press, 2022.  Hardcover, new in shrink-wrap. First edition. Afterword by Lucas Bessire. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEmmet Gowin\u003c\/strong\u003e (b.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 1941) is a celebrated American photographer and educator whose work transitions from intimate,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edomestic portraiture to expansive,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ecological aerial photography.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Raised in Danville,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Virginia,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Gowin studied graphic design at Richmond Professional Institute before earning his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1967 under the mentorship of Harry Callahan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e He first gained critical acclaim in the 1960s and 1970s for poignant,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e large-format family portraits of his wife,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Edith Morris,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and her extended family in rural Virginia,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e often utilizing round-aperture lenses that framed subjects within dark,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e circular vignettes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Over the subsequent decades,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Gowin broadened his scope to global landscape photography,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e employing high-contrast aerial perspectives to document human impacts on the earth,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e including nuclear testing sites,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e center-pivot irrigation patterns,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and strip mines.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e A legendary professor of photography at Princeton University for 25 years (1973–2009),\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Gowin’s photographs are held in major public collections worldwide,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e including the Museum of Modern Art,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the Metropolitan Museum of Art,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the Guggenheim Museum.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003ci data-path-to-node=\"0\" data-index-in-node=\"0\"\u003eThe One Hundred Circle Farm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e by photographer Emmet Gowin presents a aerial photographic survey of center-pivot irrigation systems across the western and midwestern United States.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e Made over several decades,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e Gowin’s square-format,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003ehigh-contrast black-and-white aerial images transform vast industrial agricultural plots into geometry,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e rendering crop circles against arid terrain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e Beyond their abstract aesthetic,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e the photographs serve as a poignant environmental document—visualizing human intervention in natural ecosystems and probing the looming ecological crisis of groundwater depletion across the High Plains and Ogallala Aquifer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gary Saretzky Photo Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68829278372034,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0593\/3115\/0018\/files\/Gowin_TheHundredCircleFarm.jpg?v=1793720953","url":"https:\/\/store.saretzky.com\/fr\/products\/gowin-emmet-the-one-hundred-circle-farm-by-emmet-gowin","provider":"Gary Saretzky Photo Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}