- Frank Gohlke
Frank Gohlke is a leading figure in American landscape
photography . He has been awarded twoGuggenheim Fellowship s and two fellowships from theNational Endowment for the Arts . Known for his large format landscape photographs, Gohlke's work has been shown at museums all over the world and included in collections such as theMuseum of Modern Art , theGeorge Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film , theAmon Carter Museum , theAustralian National Gallery and theNational Gallery of Canada .Although he was born in Texas, Gohlke’s geographical range includes central France, the American South and Midwest, New England and Mount St. Helens after a volcanic eruption.
Gohlke received his B.A. from the
University of Texas at Austin in English Literature. AtYale University , where he received his MA in English in 1966, Gohlke metWalker Evans and then studied privately withPaul Caponigro . Gohlke’s photographs came to notice in the influential 1975 group exhibitionNew Topographics : Images of a Man-Altered Landscape at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York, and his M.A. from Yale in the same subject.He has taught at
Massachusetts College of Art ; theArt Institute of Boston at Lesley College; theSchool of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ; and the universities of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.He is represented in many private and public collections, including the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and
Metropolitan Museum in New York, theArt Institute of Chicago , theAmon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, theVictoria and Albert Museum in London and theBibliothèque Nationale in Paris.Gohlke has participated in important commissions from the Seagrams Corporation; AT&T; the Laboratorio di Fotografia in Reggio Emilia, Italy; the George Gund Foundation in Cleveland. He has received commissions for public projects for the Tulsa International Airport, for an office complex in Basel, Switzerland, for the City of Venice and for the Mission Photographique de la DATAR, a French government-sponsored agency documenting the French landscape.
A mid-career retrospective of his work is being organized by the
Amon Carter Museum and will be on view there September 22, 2007-January 6, 2008. An accompanying catalogue includes essays by Gohlke, Rebecca Solnit and John Rohrbach, senior curator of photographs.External links
[http://www.frankgohlke.com/ Official site]
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