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Chargement... Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earthpar Jock Reynolds
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Emmet Gowin has been taking aerial photographs of the landscape in the United States, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Asia, and the Middle East for over twenty years. In his most compelling photographs, one witnesses how man's footprint has visually scarred and continually altered the earth's surface. This extraordinary book, published in conjunction with the first major touring exhibition of Gowin's photographs in over ten years, focuses on images created after 1986. That was the year Gowin began to extend his aerial photography explorations in America by recording images of military test sites, missile silos, ammunition storage and disposal facilities, coal mining, pivot irrigation, offroad motor traffic, and more. The book also surveys his more recent works, which focus on other regions of the world, including the battlefields of Kuwait, new golf courses in Japan, and the chemo-petrol industries of the Czech Republic. Gowin's richly toned black-and-white images have been characterized as "immorally gorgeous," since at a distance even his most disturbing images can appear to be beautiful. In this exquisitely produced volume, Jock Reynolds provides an overview of Gowin's aerial photography and places it in the context of his earlier work and that of such photographers as Carleton Watkins, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, and Frederick Sommer. Philip Brookman illuminates Gowin's recent work in the Czech Republic, while Terry Tempest Williams discusses Gowin's images from the American West, especially his Nevada Test Site series. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Comparing his current images of the Earth, such as The Great Salt Lake or Savannah there is that same abstract element, but with a greater visceral punch. In some ways, they remind the viewer of a painting by Pollock or Kline in which the eye is not entirely sure what it's seeing, but an emotion is being conveyed. However, though many are beautiful, the emotion present is a forbidding one. Once you read the captions, you realize quite quickly why this is so. The images are all of man's incursions on the planet.
I'm not a big fan of Abstract Expressionist paintings, but these photographs had a big impact upon me. Perhaps this was because my eye was fooled and they are not abstract; they are literal records of what the surface looks like from the air.
The message of the book is fairly clear. Gowin expressed it fairly clearly in an interview he did, "I'm so conscious now that concern for the plight or the fate of the Earth is something that any grade-school child can tell you about…They sense at some deep level that something is happening, and that it can't go on this way forever." ( )