How did Emmet Gowin create this photograph?

Aeration Pond, Toxic Water Treatment Facility, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 1989, Emmet Gowin, (b.1941), toned gelatin silver print on paper, H.14 x W.11 inches, James A. Michener Art Museum, Museum Purchase. Copyright Emmet and Edith Gowin. Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, NY.

Aeration Pond, Toxic Water Treatment Facility, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 1989, Emmet Gowin, (b.1941), toned gelatin silver print on paper, H.14 x W.11 inches, James A. Michener Art Museum, Museum Purchase. Copyright Emmet and Edith Gowin. Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, NY.

Have you ever been in a plane before? What did the world look like to you from the sky? Emmet Gowin took this photograph while he was up in a plane looking down on the earth. He has given us a different perspective on the landscape, very different than the traditional landscape paintings you see by the impressionists.  Read More »

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