Baldwin Street
Photographs 1966–1994
$115.26
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2026
Summary
A legendary American photographer’s intimate pictures of his family in a small Virginia town, published here for the first time
Photographer Emmet Gowin first gained renown in the late 1960s with a remarkable series of pictures of his wife, Edith, their children, and four generations of her family, many of whom lived in a cluster of houses at the end of Baldwin Street in the mill town of Danville, Virginia. These images of the family’s daily life and gatherings are am…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691293035 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691293031 |
| Author: | Emmet Gowin |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 1.05kg |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 241mm x 254mm |
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Critics Review
“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
“This tenderly curated collection of 70 black-and-white pictures … offers a closer look at what Mr. Gowin calls “the center of my spiritual universe.” These images … show [Gowin’s] skill for catching the sparks that animate the features of the ones we love, be it an arresting twist of the body or a twinkle in the eye.”—Isaac Sligh, Wall Street Journal
Emmet Gowin
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. 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.
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