Photographer Emmet Gowin made his name in the late 1960s with a stunning series of photographs of his wife, Edith, their children, and four generations of his family, many of whom lived in a cluster of houses at the end of Baldwin Street in the industrial town of Danville, Virginia. These images of daily life and family gatherings are among Gowin's most admired. Baldwin Street is a stunning new collection of photographs from that world. Most of these photographs have never been published, and many were printed for the first time during the Covid pandemic, after Gowin rediscovered the negatives. Together, they represent a fascinating and exciting expansion of his important early work. In the preface, Gowin describes Baldwin Street as a “small but intensely vivid world,” teeming with Edith's family, including her grandmother, mother, sisters, brothers-in-law, and numerous children. “It was here that I reached maturity and found my first true subject,” Gowin writes, and Baldwin Street became nothing less than “the center of my spiritual universe,” a place where “the kingdom of heaven seemed to surround us.” These beautiful and moving photographs capture and express this feeling of the otherworldly and numinous in everyday life. Featuring nearly seventy photographs, this beautifully crafted volume includes a new interview with Emmet and Edith Gowin that offers further details about the family and the images, with the photographer's recollections and reflections on the period in which the photos were taken.