Northstar Unplugged

#096. Emmet Gowin: photographing humanity’s relationship to the natural world

October 17, 2022 Kristen Rainey Season 1 Episode 96
#096. Emmet Gowin: photographing humanity’s relationship to the natural world
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Northstar Unplugged
#096. Emmet Gowin: photographing humanity’s relationship to the natural world
Oct 17, 2022 Season 1 Episode 96
Kristen Rainey

Emmet Gowin is a renowned photographer whose work has evolved from intimate portraits of his wife Edith Morris and extended Virginia family to aerial vistas of nuclear test sites, to scientific surveys of tropical ecosystems and their dependent biodiversity.  Emmet also served on the faculty of Princeton University as a professor of photography in the Visual Arts Program from 1973 until his retirement in 2009, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1974) and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1977, 1979). 

Full show notes at www.northstarunplugged.com

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Emmet Gowin is a renowned photographer whose work has evolved from intimate portraits of his wife Edith Morris and extended Virginia family to aerial vistas of nuclear test sites, to scientific surveys of tropical ecosystems and their dependent biodiversity.  Emmet also served on the faculty of Princeton University as a professor of photography in the Visual Arts Program from 1973 until his retirement in 2009, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1974) and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1977, 1979). 

Full show notes at www.northstarunplugged.com