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.
Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you do… - Emmet Gowin
Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you do…
- Emmet Gowin
As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise - who did that… - Emmet Gowin
As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise - who did that…
I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see." - Emmet Gowin
I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."
Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world … - Emmet Gowin
Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world …
This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand. - Emmet Gowin
This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.
I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don’t tell them or write them dow… - Emmet Gowin
I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will hear. If you don’t tell them or write them dow…
I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am li… - Emmet Gowin
I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am li…
For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another. - Emmet Gowin
For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.
I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a few. I did it as a remin… - Emmet Gowin
I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a few. I did it as a remin…
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