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Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
Center for American Places, 2007. 176 pp. , softcover |
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Wind, water, and molten rock constantly tear apart and resculpt the natural world we live in, and people have always struggled to create structures that will permanently establish their existence on the land. Frank Golhke has committed his camera lens to documenting that fraught relationship between people and place, and this retrospective collection of his work by John Rohrbach reveals how people carve out their living spaces in the face of constant natural disruption.
An acclaimed master o... [ more ] |
 A woman watering her garden, near Kirkville, Mississippi, 1986 This book is to be published on September 15, 2007 to coincide with the opening of the exhibition of the same title at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. |
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Mount St. Helens The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 2004. 80 pp. , hardcover , 13¾x10 |
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On the morning of May 18, 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in the forests of Washington State exploded. First, months of building interior pressure triggered a massive landslide removing entire north face of the mountain. This avalanche was followed immediately by a violent eruption that ultimately expelled over a quarter-billion cubic yards of magma.
Beginning in 1981 and continuing until 1990, photographer Frank Gohlke made regular visits to the devastated land around Mount St. Helens. [ more ] |
 Aerial view: looking south at Mount St. Helens, Washington, crater and lava dome, Mount Hood and Mount Jefferson in the distance, airplane in crater, 1982 |
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A City Seen: Photographs from The George Gund Foundation Collection The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2002. 180 pp. , Hardcover |
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"Almost since it's beginings, photography has attempted to describe cities --I am not aware, however, of any such attempt that has been as open -minded -so philosophically generous-as that pursued by the George Gund Foundation" --John Szarkowski . Some of America's most renowned photographers are featured in this landmark project. Michael Book, Lois Conner, Judith Joy Ross, Dawoud Bey, Linda Butler, Lee Friedlander, Gregory Conniff, Frank Gohlke, Larry Fink, Douglas Lucak, Nicholas Nixon, and... [ more ] |
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Frank Gohlke Parco Del Gigante Linea di Con. della Prov. Reg. Emil, Rubiera, 1993. 36 pp. , softcover , 11¼x9½ |
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The Parco del Gigante is a world rich in historical, cultural, and natural associations. As an outsider unfamiliar with the languages of the landscape and its inhabitants I knew I would fail to grasp many of those associations, but I hoped that the freshness of my apprehension would compensate in part for my lapses. Early in my stay I began thinking about the simple device of paired pictures as a way to organize my explorations. I did not want to spend 18 days responding randomly to this f... [ more ] |
 Ski resort at Lago Cerretano |
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The Sudbury River: A Celebration DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 1992. 20 pp. , softcover , 8x10¾ |
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Living Water is about a place and about Place, about a river and about Rivers. Its subject is the Sudbury River in eastern Massachusetts, but the river is bound up in something larger and less tangible: the process of discovery and creation through which we come to be at home in our particular parts of the world. I moved to Massachusetts from the Midwest in 1987. Disoriented and ill-at-ease in the crowded spaces of the Northeast, I began photographing a small river near my home. Wh... [ more ] |
 The Sudbury River - Ashland, Massachusetts, September 1989 |
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Measure of Emptiness : Grain Elevators in the American Landscape (Creating the North American Landscape) The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1992. 107 pp. , softcover , 8½x11 |
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IN THE AUTUMN OF 1971, after seven years in New England, I moved with my family to the Midwest. The windows of our hilltop apartment gave onto a comprehensive view of the Midway, a mile-long stretch of grain elevators and railroad tracks on the boundary between the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. During the months of disorientation following the move, I would often stare idly out the window, content, after my experience of the intimate, crowded landscapes of the eastern seaboard, to be ... [ more ] |
 Grain Elevator, Homewood, Kansas |
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Landscapes from the Middle of the World The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, 1987. 63 pp. , softcover , 11x9¾ |
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It will not be lost on anyone that the overwhelming majority of the photographs in this book take the landscape as their subject. Affection for land runs deep in us, and its manifestations-from the garden plot to the National Parks-encompass a vast range of human actions and choices. At what point in history of our species, I wonder, did the watchful, anxious regard for our surroundings, on which survival depended, begin to modulate toward love of a particular place? [ more ] |
 Poppy fields on Causse Mejean, near Ste. Enemie, Aveyron, France, 1987. |
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Contemporary Texas: A Photographic Portrait Texas Historical Society, 1986. 240 pp. , Hardcover |
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Sixteen photographers explore Texas in an attempt to create a clear reality definition or confirm the myth. Photographers: Jim Bones, Paul Hester, Frederick C. Baldwin/Wendy V. Watriss, Mary Peck, Michael Allen Murphy, Carol Cohen Burton, Rick Williams, Peter Helms Feresten, Stuart D. Klipper, George Krause, Ave Bonar, Frank Gohlke, Frank Armstrong, Gay Block, Skeet McAuley. [ more ] |
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American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers 1979. 216 pp. , Hardcover |
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Each of the twenty photographers is represented by 8 photographs, a biography, and a statement placing the works in context. Includes the work of Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Harry Callahan, William Cliff, Linda Connor, Bevan Davies, Roy DeCarava, William Eggleston, Larry Fink, Elliott Erwitt, Frank Gohlke, John Gossage, Jonathan Green, Jan Groover, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Richard Misrach, Nicholas Nixon, Tod Papageorge, and Stephen Shore. [ more ] |
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Court House: A Photographic Document Horizon Press, New York, 1978. 255 pp. , Softcover |
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Project editor Richard Pare described their work: "...twenty-four photographers were commissioned to work in widely distributed areas of the country. Each brought insights and a personal vision to the project, creating a far richer resource than conformity could have accomplished. The subject itself was closely enough refined to set its own limits within which the widest possible freedom was available to the photographers. The pictures they made enabled me to see the subject from constantly c... [ more ] |
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New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, 1975. 48 pp. , softcover |
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(exerpt from catalogue)...Frank Gohlke feels that much of this sense of neutrality lies in the way the edges of the picture function and that the work in the show (including his own) maintains an essentially passive frame. That is, rather than the picture having been created by the frame, there is a sense of the frame having been laid on an existing scene without interpreting it very much. [ more ] |
 This catalogue, printed by the George Eastman House in 1975, brought together a group of photographers including Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel, Jr. |