Field-Of-Study: Photography

Elijah Gowin

During his Guggenheim Fellowship term, photographer Elijah Gowin completed his series "Of Falling and Floating," which consists of digitally manipulated images, often culled from the Internet, that he described in a Kansas City Star (April 19, 2008) article as "multiple figures from different places and times brought together photographically but synthesized the way a painter would

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Emmet Gowin

As published in the Foundation’s Annual Report for 1974: Gowin, Emmet William Seay, II. Appointed for photography. Born December 22, 1941, Danville, Virginia. Virginia Commonwealth University, B.F.A., 1965; Rhode Island School of Design, M.F.A., 1967. School of Dayton Art Institute, Instructor in Photography, 1967–71; Bucks County Community College, Assistant Professor of Photography, 1971–73; Princeton University,

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Ralph Gibson

Ralph Gibson studied photography while serving in the U.S. Navy, and then at the San Francisco Art Institute.  He began his professional career as an assistant to Dorothea Lange, and went on to work with Robert Frank on two films.  Mr. Gibson has maintained a lifelong fascination with books and book-making.  Since the publication of

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Lee Friedlander

As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1959 and 1960: FRIEDLANDER, LEE NORMAN. Appointed for photographic studies of the changing American scene. Born July 14, 1934, Aberdeen, Washington. Photographic studies at the Art Center, Los Angeles, and with Edward Kaminski. Publications: Photographs published in Esquire, McCall’s, Collier’s, Seventeen, Sports Illustrated, Art in America.  

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