June 5 – 28, 1997
Born in 1942, in Texas, Frank Gohlke has helped to shape modern landscape photography and has influenced many contemporary landscape photographers. Gohlke originally studied English in college, but focused on photography and in 1966 met Walker Evans and studied privately with Paul Caponegro. He has traveled extensively for his landscape series. He’s documented the felling of thousands of trees due to the Mt. Saint Helens eruption in 1980, grain silos in the Midwest, and changing environments along various rivers in the Northeast. Part of the 1975 New Topographics, he has been exhibited widely nationally and internationally. He’s the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and his work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, among others.