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Photographer

Emmet Gowin is an American photographer known for his unique style and profound exploration of the relationship between individuals, nature, and the human condition. His work often focuses on the private and public aspects of family life and the connection between people and the natural world.

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“Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.”

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“We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see.”

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“The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us”

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“Of course, this is one of the really important things about art, that you can make more than you can understand at the moment the thing is being made. But the gap between what we recognize inside ourselves - our feelings- and our ability to trust ourselves and to trust exposing ourselves to those ideas, can be great.”

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“It might take us a lifetime to find out what it is we need to say. Most of us fall into where our feelings are headed while we're quite young. But the beauty of all this uncertainty would be that in the process of exhausting all the possibilities, we might actually stumble unconsciously into the recognition of something that's useful to us, that speaks to a deep need within ourselves. At the same time, I like to think that in order for any of us to really do anything new, we can't know exactly what it is we are doing.”

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Author:Emmet Gowin

About the Author

Born: December 22, 1941
Known for: Photographer
Quotes: 21

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