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Frank Gohlke
Initially a student of English literature at Yale University, Frank Gohlke turned to photography under the tutelage of Walker Evans and Paul Caponigro. With an abiding interest in cultural landscape studies and having relocated to Minneapolis, Gohlke came to believe during cross-country drives that one could not understand a structure without understanding the landscape, and that one could not understand the landscape without looking at human culture. Gohlke's work shown in New Topographics presents ordinary features of the American West and the Midwest with an eye to their variations. Scenes that are at once typical yet specific rely on Gohlke's determination that photographs could function as a “passive frame,” a more direct engagement with the subject that minimizes the appearance of authorial interpretation.
1. LANDSCAPE, LOS ANGELES, 1974, printed 1975 Gelatin silver print 13 in. x 13 in. Museum Purchase with National Endowment for the Arts support. George Eastman House collections. © Frank Gohlke.
2. LANDSCAPE, LOS ANGELES, 1974, printed 1975 Gelatin silver print 9 1/2 in. x 9 1/2 in. Gift of the photographer. George Eastman House collections. © Frank Gohlke.
3. LANDSCAPE, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, 1974, printed 1975 Gelatin silver print 9 1/2 in. x 9 1/2 in. Gift of the photographer. George Eastman House collections. © Frank Gohlke.
Audio excerpt from the lecture “How I Found My Way to Getting Lost: A Photographer's Odyssey” (September 17, 2007), generously provided by the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
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Frank Gohlke speaks about the modern experience of landscape.
ROBERT ADAMS
LEWIS BALTZ
BERND AND HILLA BECHER
JOE DEAL
FRANK GOHLKE
NICHOLAS NIXON
JOHN SCHOTT
STEPHEN SHORE
HENRY WESSEL, JR.
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