Of Falling and Floating, 2006-2009

Vince Aletti in his review in the New Yorker, June 2, 2007:

“Although he shares his father's appreciation of the mysterious in the everyday, Emmet Gowin's son Eli­jah is a photographer in a very different mold. The pictures in his second solo show combine images he's appropriated from the Internet or TV with im­ages he's photographed. The resulting collages-of people falling from the sky and figures floating or half-submerged in water-are digitally scanned but output as paper negatives that turn into these grainy, streaked, and crudely vignetted ink-jet prints. Although his process grabs a little too much atten­tion, Gowin uses it shrewdly. His figures in midair are at once sublime and unsettling, recalling the div­ers in Aaron Siskind's "Pleasures & Terrors of Lev­itation" series and bodies tumbling from the World Trade Center.”

See the special techniques that were used to make the photos in “Of Falling and Floating” series.

Robert Mann Gallery installation view June, 2007.