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Passionate about the world surrounding him, Emmet Gowin has photographed aspects of nature\u2014from tiny insects to expansive aerial views of the landscape\u2014for more than forty years. Force of Nature<\/em> features Gowin\u2019s photographs of Mount St. Helens, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and the Nevada Test Site nuclear grounds. Together, these images trace nature\u2019s unpredictable power and humanity\u2019s own forceful manipulation of the American West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 1980 and 1986, Gowin photographed Mount St. Helens, which erupted in May 1980 with a force equal to 27,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs. Initially working from an aircraft and later on the ground, he charted the stunning aftermath of the natural phenomenon: Horizonless forests of felled trees and abstract mudflows dripping down the mountainside suggest a seemingly endless field of devastation and capture nature\u2019s raw and stunning power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1986, while still photographing Mount St. Helens, Gowin made a side trip to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. In his first foray into the nuclear landscape, he documented aspects of the country\u2019s most contaminated nuclear site from above. Ten years later, Gowin photographed the secretive Nevada Test Site, where more than 800 nuclear experiments were conducted between 1951 and 1992. As a group, the three series reveal the terrible beauty of natural and human markmaking on the land initiated by sudden chaos and controlled usage: massive craters, linear trenches and roadways, and hardened rivers of lava.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mythic American West has been a mainstay of landscape photography since the introduction of the medium. Gowin\u2019s late-20th-century consideration of Mount St. Helens, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and the Nevada Test Site continues the photographic interpretation of and concern for the promising but unpredictable natural world west of the Mississippi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organized by the Portland Art Museum and curated by Julia Dolan, Ph.D., The Minor White Curator of Photography.<\/em><\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"force-of-nature","image":{"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EmmetGowin-OldHanfordCitySite.jpeg","id":9078,"extension":"jpeg","width":2400,"height":2426,"filesize":3760365,"sizes":{"medium":{"width":692,"height":700,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":90960,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EmmetGowin-OldHanfordCitySite-692x700.jpeg"},"large":{"width":1294,"height":1308,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":282868,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EmmetGowin-OldHanfordCitySite-1294x1308.jpeg"},"thumbnail":{"width":270,"height":270,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":26767,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EmmetGowin-OldHanfordCitySite-270x270.jpeg"},"medium_large":{"width":768,"height":776,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":108025,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EmmetGowin-OldHanfordCitySite-768x776.jpeg"},"1536x1536":{"width":1520,"height":1536,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":383352,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EmmetGowin-OldHanfordCitySite-1520x1536.jpeg"},"2048x2048":{"width":2026,"height":2048,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":665427,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EmmetGowin-OldHanfordCitySite-2026x2048.jpeg"},"small":{"width":375,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":45259,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EmmetGowin-OldHanfordCitySite-375x500.jpeg"},"medium-large":{"width":890,"height":900,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":141006,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EmmetGowin-OldHanfordCitySite-890x900.jpeg"},"card":{"width":904,"height":565,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":97807,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EmmetGowin-OldHanfordCitySite-904x565.jpeg"},"post":{"width":975,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":95201,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EmmetGowin-OldHanfordCitySite-975x500.jpeg"},"hero":{"width":1894,"height":1080,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","filesize":354433,"url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/EmmetGowin-OldHanfordCitySite-1894x1080.jpeg"}}},"all_day":false,"start_date":"2015-10-10 08:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2015","month":"10","day":"10","hour":"08","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2016-01-17 17:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2016","month":"01","day":"17","hour":"17","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2015-10-10 15:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2015","month":"10","day":"10","hour":"15","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2016-01-18 01:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2016","month":"01","day":"18","hour":"01","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"America\/Vancouver","timezone_abbr":"","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"$","currency_code":"USD","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Exhibitions","slug":"exhibitions","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":201,"filter":"raw","id":17,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/17","collection":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":290,"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2023-03-28 10:28:29","date_utc":"2023-03-28 17:28:29","modified":"2024-03-07 10:38:06","modified_utc":"2024-03-07 18:38:06","url":"https:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/venue\/portland-art-museum\/","venue":"Portland Art Museum","description":"

The Museum is conveniently located on the historic Park Blocks in the center of downtown Portland, which is easy to get around by public transit or on foot. The Portland Business Alliance has installed way-finding signs which direct you to the cultural district, where the Museum is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is generally plenty of street parking surrounding the Museum. These spaces range from 1 \u2013 4 hours and can be paid for using a credit card or the Parking Kitty app<\/a>. There are also surface parking lots, and parking garages within 1 \u2013 4 blocks of the Museum. The closest surface lot is located at SW Main St. between SW 10th Ave. and Park Ave, and there are dedicated accessible and van accessible spaces. This lot accepts credit card or the Reef app<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public transit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Getting to get to the Museum by public transportation is straightforward and economical. The bus and streetcar travel directly past the Museum, and the MAX light rail has a stop only four blocks away.\u00a0TriMet\u2019s Trip Planner<\/a>\u00a0gives you step-by-step travel directions from your location by bus, light rail, or streetcar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n