For nearly forty years, Emmet Gowin’s work has been included in exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Artist Fellowship (1974), two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1977, 1979), the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts from the State of Pennsylvania (1983), and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts (1992). Gowin's photographs are included in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. He currently is a Professor of Art at Princeton University and lives and works in Newtown, Pennsylvania.