Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) is a world-renowned American photographer and professor emeritus of photography at Princeton University. His many books include The One Hundred Circle Farm, The Nevada Test Site, and Mariposas Nocturnas (all Princeton). His photographs are in the collections of major museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Morgan Library and Museum, and the Tokyo Museum of Art.
""Many of the black-and-white photographs that follow are as casual as snapshots, but they’re far from simple documents. They’re often posed, without feeling formal. Children dart into the frame. A sitter’s attention skitters off. A group disbands. Gowin isn’t in any of these pictures, but his presence—loving, amused, amazed—defines them, giving the work a lovely intensity, a glow. You sense that, in the moment, there was nowhere else Gowin wanted to be than on this lawn, in this kitchen, with these people. And what a pleasure it is to be there, too. . . . The pictures in “Baldwin Street” remind us of the pleasure of looking and the rewards of being alive to the world.""---Vince Aletti, New Yorker ""The images [in Baldwin Street] are timely reminders to bear witness, to honor, and, above all, to love.""---Janelle Lynch, LensCulture