Frank Gohlke, A Yard, Mezilles Burgundy France. Field Of Flowers 1986 Vintage Color Photograph, 1986

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French Burgundy wine country farmhouse yard scene with flowers.

Frank Gohlke (born April 3, 1942) is … more Size is without frame.
French Burgundy wine country farmhouse yard scene with flowers.

Frank Gohlke (born April 3, 1942) 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.

After graduating high school, Gohlke first attended Davidson College in North Carolina before transferring to the University of Texas at Austin, where he received a B.A. in English Literature in 1964. He went on to complete an M.A. in English Literature at Yale University in 1966. During a period of writer’s block while at Yale, Gohlke returned to photography. He began making near-still films with a Super 8 movie camera before transitioning to 35-mm still photography. He eventually showed his work to documentary photographer and then-Yale professor Walker Evans, whose mode of seeing the American vernacular landscape would exert an enduring influence on Gohlke’s work. From 1967-68, after leaving Yale, Gohlke studied with the landscape photographer Paul Caponigro, making weekly visits to Caponigro's Connecticut home.
In 1971, Gohlke relocated to Minneapolis, and a year later, in 1972, he began his first major body of work, documenting the grain elevators of America’s central plains.
Gohlke was one of ten photographers to be included in the 1975 exhibition “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape,” organized by William Jenkins, then the assistant curator at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House (now the George Eastman Museum). “New Topographics,” which represented a burgeoning movement within landscape photography toward unvarnished consideration of the vernacular landscape, has come to be regarded as a watershed moment in the history of the medium.
In 2004, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted “Mt. St. Helens: Photographs by Frank Gohlke,” a solo exhibition (with accompanying catalog), co-organized by Peter Galassi, Chief Curator, Department of Photography, and John Szarkowski, Director Emeritus, Department of Photography.

Selected group exhibitions
Paris-New York-Tokyo, Tsukuba Museum of Photography, Tsukuba, Japan Miyagi
American Dreams, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (catalogue), 1987
The Second Israeli Photography Biennial, Mishkan Le'Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
Photography Now, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, 1989
Photography Until Now, MoMA, New York
Recent Acquisitions, The National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., 1994
From Icon to Irony: German and American Industrial Photography, Boston University
Six from the Seventies, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 2004
Selektion # 1, Arbeiten in Schwarz/Weiß,* Galerie f5.6, Munich, Germany

Selected collections
Gohlke's work is held in the following public collections:
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art Institute of Chicago
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth less