Man Near Window, from the "20/20" portfolio
Maker
McGowan, Kenneth
American, 1940-1986
Date1983
MediumSilver dye bleach print
Dimensionsimage: 12 in x 11 7/8 in; paper: 20 in x 16 in
Credit LineGift of the David C. & Sarajean Ruttenberg Arts Foundation in memory of David C. Ruttenberg
Object number2006:765.15
About the ArtistBorn in Ogden, Utah in 1940, Kenneth McGowan moved to Los Angeles to attend the University of California, where he completed a BA (1963) and an MFA (1966). The 20/20 portfolio, published in 1985 by UCLA, gathered the work of twenty photographers who had completed the graduate photography program within the last twenty years. McGowan was included along with Ellen Brooks, Gillian Brown, Jack Butler, Darryl Curran, Jo Ann Callis, Judy Coleman, Darryl J. Curran, William Doherty, Sidney Doniger, John Divola, Robbert Flick, Jeff Gates, Graham Howe, Paul Knotter, Victor Landweber, Philip Melnick, Patrick Nagatani, Karen O'Hearn, Pat O'Neill, Sheila Pinkel, Scott Rankin, Kenneth Shorr, and Elfie Wilkins-Nacht. In the 1970s, McGowan worked on a series of photographs that engaged with the film industry in Los Angeles, and in pictures such as Movie Trees and Pech and Hitchcock (both 1979) he highlights the elements of artifice that go into making movies. McGowan died in 1986 in New York City.
Landweber, Victor
1981, printed 1983
