I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting. — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
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… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting. — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see." — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know,… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
What's great is that the picture is already taken before it goes public. It's in secret. The trust that develops from such a habit… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand. — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another. — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see. — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
