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EMMET GOWIN (American, b. 1941) EDITH AND RENNIE BOOHER, DANVILLE, VIRGINIA titled, dated and si...

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EMMET GOWIN (American, b. 1941) EDITH AND RENNIE BOOHER, DANVILLE, VIRGINIA titled, dated and si...
EMMET GOWIN (American, b. 1941) EDITH AND RENNIE BOOHER, DANVILLE, VIRGINIA titled, dated and signed "EDITH AND RENNIE BOOHER, DANVILLE, VIRGINIA 1971, Emmet Gowin" in pencil on verso vintage gelatin silver print 6 1/8 x 6 1/16 in. (15.5 x 15.3 cm) 1971 PROVENANCE Light Gallery, NEW YORK Private Collection, NEW YORK (since the early 1970s) EXHIBITED NEW YORK, Light Gallery, EMMET GOWIN, February 1972 When Emmet Gowin made this photograph he was in the midst of an intensive period of photographing his wife, Edith, and her extended family, including their own children. Gowin has commented that, "There was something in family life, in the development of young minds, that was my subject: how it feels to be the child asking the parent for attention, and how it feels to be yourself, for the first time to recognize yourself as the parent rather than the child. My mental state had been that of a child, but I'd been drafted and I could no longer be a child, yet I wanted to look to children to understand this differentiation between what I used to be and what I am now. It was my realization of coming of age" (Martha Chahroudi, EMMET GOWIN: PHOTOGRAPHS, Philadelphia, 1990, p. 10). In this photograph Edith, although an adult and mother herself, regresses to making a silly face. Through occasional glimpses of childish behavior among the many photographs of her as wife, mother, sister, and aunt, we witness Edith, and by association, Gowin coming to grips with this transition from child to adult.
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