Emmet Gowin, Lee Friedlander and Harry Callahan: “The Model Wife” (2001)

Edith, 1970 @ Emmet Gowin “I realized that my own family – Edith’s family – was as miraculous as the most distant people in the world and they were at the same time, the most available to me, and perhaps available only to me…. I had not realized t

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He came of age photographically, making images of his wife’s family. “I realized that my own family – Edith’s family – was as miraculous as the most distant people in the world and they were at the same time, the most available to me, and perhaps available only to me…. I had not realized that art could be made by simply telling the story of your own life, of your own experience.”