Friday, April 7th
UMMA, Apse, 1st Floor

3:30-5:00pm Photographs

"Changing the Earth and Other Experiences"

Description:
Emmet Gowin's most recent photographs—collected in his monograph 'Changing the Earth'—witness patterns of alterations to the earth brought about by 20th-century extractive, industrial, and military technologies in the American West, in Kansas, and in the Czech Republic. Gowin began his career documenting his birthplace in southern Virginia; he later photographed the landscapes of Ireland, Italy, Jordan, and Mt. St. Helen's in Washington State, where he began to record the earth's changing surface from the air. A visual lyric artist, Gowin portrays the beauty and complexity of the earth's response to human history. Gowin is Professor of Photography at Princeton University; he has received Fellowships from the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Pew trust. His work has been collected and exhibited by the George Eastman House, the Corcoran Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, the Whitney, and internationally, in Japan and France. A show at the Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York City opens February 23. At the UMMA from 3:30-5:00pm, Gowin will show and discuss photographs from his entire corpus and share his philosophy of vision.

Recent Publications:
Changing the Earth (Yale Press)
Mariposas Nocturnas-Edith in Panama (Pace/McGill)