Gowin's work bridges the gap between classic American street/documentary photography and highly personal
behind-the-scenes look at the exhaustive physical and logistical labor required to execute precise field photography in harsh desert terrains
The History of Photography from the Earliest Attempts in the Camera Obscura to the Beginning of the Modern Era (1955)
horizontal perspective strips away the rigid posture of military hierarchy and armor
Bruce Charlesworth
Stieglitz, Alfred. American Amateur Photographer, Vol. VII, No. 11, Nov. 1895. Untitled (Friends of Photography) Gowin's work bridges the gapEdited by Alfred Stieglitz and F. C. Beach. Entire issue, includes frontis on glossy paper by J. Craig Annan, "A Dutch Dog Cart"; "The London Exhibitions," reviewed by George Davison, with illustrations; "A Chronological Record of Inventors and Discoverers of Photography," by Alfred J. Jarman; "The Anaglyph and How It Is Made" by J. F. Watch; obituary of Thomas Roche, who had been a photographer for Brady during the Civil War and introduced a number