Emmet Gowin
[Photographer, b. 1941, Danville, Virginia, lives in Princeton, New Jersey.]

 This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand. 
 I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself—a matter of identity. 
 All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand. 
 Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isn’t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you don’t see. 
 I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting. 
 If you set out to make pictures about love, it can’t be done. But you can make pictures, and you can be in love. In that way, people sense the authenticity of what you do. 
 The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don’t know, or already know and should take seriously. 
 We tremble at the feelings we experience as our sense of wholeness is reorganized by what we see. 
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