Gowin, Emmet
The One Hundred Circle Farm
- ISBN 13:
- 9780691235417
- author:
- Gowin, Emmet
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 128
- Dimensions:
- 31 x 25.6 x 2.2 centimetres (1.2
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Art, Subjects & Themes,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The One Hundred Circle Farm by Emmet Gowin is a powerful photographic survey that bears witness to the impact of irrigation systems on the American landscape. Through stunning aerial images, Gowin captures the stark beauty and industrial scale of center-pivot irrigation systems, creating enormous circles of irrigated land in the midst of dry terrain. These hauntingly beautiful compositions, created over eight years, highlight the tenuous connections between human enterprise and our planet's most precious resource - water. The photographs not only showcase the ambitions humans wield in shaping the landscape but also attest to the fragility of the environment. With an afterword by anthropologist Lucas Bessire, this book stands as a poetic visual record of the consequences of large-scale irrigation. The images evoke a sense of loss and transformation, with fields resembling lost civilizations and crops gazing like strange new suns. The stark photographic compositions serve as a poignant reminder of the technology extracting unimaginable amounts of water that cannot be replaced.
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