Center Presents a major Retrospective of Photographer Frank Gohlke |
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Tucson, AZ – A major mid-career retrospective, Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke, will be on view at the Center for Creative Photography August 16–November 2, 2008. A leading figure in American landscape photography, Gohlke creates pictures that explore how we live and build our lives surrounded by a natural world that rarely meets our ideals and expectations. Gohlke joined the faculty of the University of Arizona’s School of Art as full professor last year. "The Center is pleased to benefit from this opportunity where the artist is part of the staff at the University and can engage with students and participates in the presentation of the exhibition," said Britt Salvesen, Director and Chief Curator at the Center. Frank Gohlke’s career in photography spans more than 35 years; a major exhibition of his large-format landscape photographs of Mount St. Helens was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2005. The present exhibition, organized by John Rohrbach, senior curator of photographs at the Amon Carter Museum, is accompanied by a catalogue that features essays by Rohrbach, Gohlke, and cultural historian Rebecca Solnit. With 85 black-and-white and color photographs ranging up to 42-by-54 inches, Accommodating Nature surveys Gohlke’s career, beginning with work from the seminal 1975 New Topographics exhibition and continuing through projects he is immersed in today. The show includes two of Gohlke’s most important bodies of work: depictions of the destruction and rebuilding after a devastating tornado struck Wichita Falls in 1979, and a multi-year investigation of the effects of the massive volcanic explosion that blew off the top of Mount St. Helens in 1980. Large-scale color photographs of the Sudbury River in Massachusetts created between 1989 and 1992 capture pastoral New England while revealing the complexity of an overgrown river that has been taken for granted. Gohlke received his BA 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: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York. The exhibition also featured photographers Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel, Jr. more  Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke was organized by the Amon Carter Museum and is made possible in part by generous support from the Perkins-Prothro Foundation, Exelon Power, and the Vin and Caren Prothro Foundation. The Center for Creative Photography holds more archives and individual works by 20th-century North American photographers than any other museum in the world. The archives of over 60 major American photographers—including Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, W. Eugene Smith, Edward Weston, and Garry Winogrand—form the core of a collection numbering over 80,000 works. The Center for Creative Photography has an integrated program of preservation, access, and education that celebrates the history of photography and its contemporary practice. Admission: Center for Creative Photography exhibitions, print room viewings, and education events are always FREE and open to the public. Location: The CCP is located on the University of Arizona campus, Fine Arts Complex, 1030 N. Olive Rd., Tucson, AZ. For More Information: 520-621-7968 or http://www.creativephotography.org Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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