For this, his first published collection, Emmet Gowin made quiet photographs of small moments, but there is nothing trivial about them. Combining precise observation with formal elegance, they have an extraordinary emotional and aesthetic range. Some are achingly tender-especially those of his beloved wife, Edith, and their children-some are gently humorous, and some are melancholy or mysterious. Whatever its subject, each of them, in its own way, is beautiful.In the thirty-plus years since this work first appeared, Gowin has gone on to become an eminent photographer, an acknowledged master of his art. It is a tribute to his mind and his eye that the images in this book are still so full of life and Wonder.