Frank gohlke biography

Frank Gohlke (born April 3, 1942) is an American landscape photographer.
Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, Gohlke received a B.A. in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 1964, and an M.A. in English from Yale in 1967.
Frank Gohlke was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1942.

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Frank Gohlke
1942–

Introduction

Born 3 April 1942. In 1967, Gohlke became a freelance photographer, and from 1967-1968 he studied photography with Paul Caponigro. In 1971, Gohlke moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and from 1975 to 1979 he was an assistant professor of photography at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. From 1973 to 1977, Gohlke photographed grain elevators in the midwestern United States. In 1980, Gohlke was commissioned by the Tulsa Airport Trust to create a series of mural photographs for Tulsa International Airport. From 1980 to 1983, Gohlke produced a series of aerial photographs of the eruptions of Mount Saint Helens in Washington State. In 1986, Gohlke became the first American to be commissioned by the French government sponsored survey "la Mission photographique de la DATAR". Gohlke was commissioned to photograph the countryside of the Burgundy and Massif central regions of France. Gohlke moved to Massachusetts in 1987.

Country of birth

United States

Roles

Artist, photographer, teacher

ULAN identifier

500037192

Names

Frank Gohlke

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Frank Gohlke is an American landscape photographer. He has been awarded two Guggenheim fellowships, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Fulbright Scholar Grant. His work is included in numerous permanent collections, including those of Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Art Institute of Chicago.Gohlke was one of ten photographers selected to be part of "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape," the landmark 1975 exhibition at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House (now the George Eastman Museum). During a career spanning nearly five decades, Gohlke has photographed grain elevators in the American midwest; the aftermath of a 1979 tornado in his hometown of Wichita Falls, Texas; changes in the land around Mount St. Helens during the decade following its 1980 eruption; agriculture in central France; and the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan.

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Frank Gohlke | American, 1942 -

Frank Gohlke is a leading figure in American landscape photography. He has been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and two fellowships from the National 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 the Museum of Modern Art, the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, the Australian National Gallery and the National 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. At Yale University, where he received his MA in English in 1966, Gohlke met Walker Evans and then studied privately with Paul Caponigro. Gohlke’s photographs came to notice in the influential 1975 group exhibition New Topographics: Images of a Man-Altered Landscape at the George Eastman House International Mu