{"title":"Emmet Gowin","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"one-hundred-circle-farm-book-emmet-gowin-9780691235417","title":"The One Hundred Circle Farm","description":"A powerful photographic survey of the impact of irrigation systems on the landscape of the United States  In The One Hundred Circle Farm, renowned photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) presents stunning aerial images of center-pivot irrigation systems in the western and midwestern United States. This type of farming involves a method of watering crops in which equipment rotates around a centrally drilled well, creating enormous, distinct circles of irrigated land, often in the midst of dry terrain. Anyone who has taken a cross-country flight has likely seen countless acres of these iconic symbols of industrial agriculture. Through a faithful yet personal photographic survey, Gowin’s powerful images not only bear witness to the ambitions humans wield in shaping the landscape, but also attest to how such primal elements—circles, pivots, and lines—symbolize water depletion and the fragile environment.  The stark photographic compositions, more than one hundred in all, were created over eight years. Fields resemble lost civilizations; crops gape like strange new suns. Hauntingly beautiful, the images highlight Earth’s nourishing geology, visual evidence of our labors. Inscribed onto the earth, these lines are reminders of the technology extracting unimaginable amounts of water that cannot be replaced, and raise questions about what large-scale irrigation must answer for when the water runs out.  With an afterword by anthropologist Lucas Bessire discussing the history and impact of pivot irrigation on American farming, The One Hundred Circle Farm stands as a poetic visual record, evidence of the tenuous connections between human enterprise and our planet’s most precious resource.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49741093404945,"sku":"NGR9780691235417","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50361315262737,"sku":"CIN0691235414G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51005797925137,"sku":"NIN9780691235417","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0691235414.jpg?v=1750944672"},{"product_id":"nevada-test-site-book-emmet-gowin-9780691196039","title":"The Nevada Test Site","description":"A photographic study of the land that served as the main testing site for American nuclear devices for four decadesMore nuclear bombs have been detonated in America than in any other country in the world. Between 1951 and 1992, the Nevada National Security Test Site was the primary location for these activities, withstanding more than a thousan","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49994875535633,"sku":"CIN0691196036G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51005718855953,"sku":"NIN9780691196039","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51333249073425,"sku":"CIN0691196036VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52086276260113,"sku":"GOR010212659","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0691196036.jpg?v=1751262168"},{"product_id":"mariposas-nocturnas-book-emmet-gowin-9780691176895","title":"Mariposas Nocturnas","description":"A stunning portrait of the nocturnal moths of Central and South America by famed American photographer Emmet Gowin  American photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) is best known for his portraits of his wife, Edith, and their family, as well as for his images documenting the impact of human activity upon landscapes around the world. For the past fifteen years, he has been engaged in an equally profound project on a different scale, capturing the exquisite beauty of more than one thousand species of nocturnal moths in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, and Panama. These stunning color portraits present the insects--many of which may never have been photographed as living specimens before, and some of which may not be seen again--arrayed in typologies of twenty-five per sheet. The moths are photographed alive, in natural positions and postures, and set against a variety of backgrounds taken from the natural world and images from art history.  Throughout Gowin's distinguished career, his work has addressed urgent concerns. The arresting images of Mariposas Nocturnas extend this reach, as Gowin fosters awareness for a part of nature that is generally left unobserved and calls for a greater awareness of the biodiversity and value of the tropics as a universally shared natural treasure. An essay by Gowin provides a fascinating personal history of his work with biologists and introduces both the photographic and philosophical processes behind this extraordinary project. Essential reading for audiences both in photography and natural history, this lavishly illustrated volume reminds readers that, as Terry Tempest Williams writes in her foreword, \"The world is saturated with loveliness, inhabited by others far more adept at living with uncertainty than we are.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50901325021457,"sku":"CIN0691176892VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51005743202577,"sku":"NIN9780691176895","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0691176892.jpg?v=1750847966"},{"product_id":"emmet-gowin-book-emmet-gowin-9781597112611","title":"Emmet Gowin","description":"Throughout his prolific career as a photographer, Emmet Gowin has threaded together seemingly disparate subjects: his wife, Edith, and their extended family; American and European landscapes; aerial views of environmental devastation, brought together by his ongoing interest in issues of scale, the impact of the individual, and notions of belonging. This long-awaited survey pays tribute to Gowin’s remarkable career and his impact on the medium. Following his marriage to Edith Morris in 1964, Gowin began work on a series of images of his extended family that is now recognized as a touchstone of twentieth-century American photography. He photographed the children and the aging parents, and made intimate portraits of his wife, continuing a photographic tradition inherited from his mentor, Harry Callahan, with whom he studied in the 1960s. His focus broadened in the 1980s, when he began an exploration of landscape and aerial photography, most specifically in his documentation of Mount St. Helens and the American West. He has photographed in the Czech Republic, Italy, Mexico, Japan and the United States, with a continued interest in irrigation, mining and natural resources, and the effects of military testing on the environment. As a photography professor at Princeton University from 1973 to 2009, Gowin has exerted a powerful influence on several generations of photographers. Copublished by Aperture and Fundación MAPFRE","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50960648896785,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50960649158929,"sku":"GOR014147439","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51818914218257,"sku":"CIN1597112615A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52689671979281,"sku":"NLS9781597112611","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52962417475857,"sku":"CIN1597112615G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1597112615.jpg?v=1751087889"},{"product_id":"baldwin-street-book-emmet-gowin-9780691293035","title":"Baldwin Street","description":"A legendary American photographer’s intimate pictures of his family in a small Virginia town, published here for the first time  Photographer Emmet Gowin first gained renown in the late 1960s with a remarkable series of pictures of his wife, Edith, their children, and four generations of her family, many of whom lived in a cluster of houses at the end of Baldwin Street in the mill town of Danville, Virginia. These images of the family’s daily life and gatherings are among Gowin’s most admired. Baldwin Street is a stunning new collection of photographs from that world. Most of these photographs have never been published, and many were printed for the first time during the Covid pandemic after Gowin rediscovered the negatives. Together, they represent a fascinating and thrilling expansion of his important early work.  In a preface, Gowin describes Baldwin Street as a “small but intensely vivid world,” teeming with Edith’s family—including her grandmother, mother, sisters, brothers-in-law, and many children. “It was here that I came of age and found my first true subject,” Gowin writes, and Baldwin Street became nothing less than “the center of my spiritual universe,” a place where “the kingdom of heaven seemed to be all around us.” These beautiful and moving photographs capture and express this feeling of the otherworldly and numinous amid everyday life.  Featuring close to seventy photographs, this gorgeously produced volume includes a new interview with Emmet and Edith Gowin offering further details about the family and the images, with memories and reflections by the photographer about the period when the pictures were made.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53053338124561,"sku":"NGR9780691293035","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53502610571537,"sku":"NIN9780691293035","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780691293035.jpg?v=1770718643"},{"product_id":"emmet-gowin-book-emmet-gowin-9780394732497","title":"Emmet Gowin","description":"Copublished by Aperture and Fundaci n MAPFRE","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53365506638097,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53365506834705,"sku":"CIN0394732499G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780394732497.jpg?v=1775071088"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-emmet-gowin.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}