Frank W Gohlke
- (520) 621-7570
- ART / MUSEUM, Rm. 110
- TUCSON, AZ 85721-0002
- fgohlke@arizona.edu
Biography
Before his immersion in photography, Frank Gohlke studied English Literature. At Yale University (M.A. in English,1966), Gohlke met Walker Evans, and then studied privately with Paul Caponigro. His photographs came to notice in the influential 1975 group exhibition New Topographics: Images of a Man-Altered Landscape at the International Museum of Photography (George Eastman House) in Rochester. That same year, he accepted his first of two Guggenheim fellowships, one of many awards he has earned. He has participated in important commissions from the Seagrams Corporation, AT&T, the Laboratorio di Fotografia in Reggio Emilia, Italy, the George Gund Foundation in Cleveland, the City of Venice, Italy, and Queens College, New York.
His books include Landscapes from the Middle of the World (Friends of Photography, 1988), Measure of Emptiness: Grain Elevators in the American Landscape (Johns Hopkins Press, 1992), and Mount St. Helens, Photographs by Frank Gohlke (Museum of Modern Art, 2005).
He has had numerous one-person exhibitions, including the Chicago Art Institute (1974), the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (1988), and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1978, 1983, 2005). A major retrospective exhibition and catalogue (Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke) are in preparation at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth for 2007. He has taught at Massachusetts College of Art, the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley College, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the universities of Harvard, Princeton and Yale.
Prof. Gohlke is the first Laureate Professor at the School of Art (University of Arizona) and The Center of Creative Photography. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to do photography in Kazakhstan during the 2013-2014 academic year. Gohlke will explore the wild apple forests around Almaty, unique in the world, in southeast Kazakhstan and document their appearance and current condition.
Website: www.frankgohlke.com
Degrees
- M.A. English
- Yale
- B.A. English
- University of Texas
Work Experience
Awards
- Fulbright Scholar Research Fellowship
- Fulbright Foundation, Spring 2014
- Fulbright Scholar Research grant
- Fulbright Foundation, Spring 2013
- Prix Pictet
- Fall 2009
Interests
No activities entered.
Courses
2019-20 Courses
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Large Format Photography
ART 442 (Spring 2020) -
Trnds/Contemporary Photo
ART 440 (Spring 2020) -
Trnds/Contemporary Photo
ART 540 (Spring 2020)
2018-19 Courses
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Internship
ART 393 (Summer I 2019) -
Documentary Photography
ART 341A (Spring 2019) -
Independent Study
ART 699 (Spring 2019) -
Practicum
ART 694 (Spring 2019) -
Trad Photograhy Techns
ART 343A (Spring 2019)
2017-18 Courses
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Large Format Photography
ART 442 (Spring 2018) -
Practicum
ART 694 (Spring 2018) -
Trnds/Contemporary Photo
ART 540 (Spring 2018)
2016-17 Courses
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Advanced Photography
ART 441 (Spring 2017) -
Grad Interdiscipl Critiq
ART 642 (Spring 2017)
2015-16 Courses
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Internship
ART 393 (Spring 2016) -
Internship
ART 493 (Spring 2016)
Scholarly Contributions
Books
- Gohlke, F. W., & Sternfeld, J. (2016). "Landscape as Longing: Queens, NY". Göttingen, Germany: Steidl Verlag.More info36 photographs each by Gohlke and Sternfeld, black and white and color, respectively, with a short story by Suketu Mehta.The work was made on commission for Queens College, Queens, NY, in 2003 and 2004 and was permanently installed in Powdermaker Hall in 2004
- Gohlke, F. W. (2011). "Reframing the New Topographics. Center for American Places and Columbia College.
- Gohlke, F. W. (2009). "Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews. Holart Books, Tucson, AZ.
Journals/Publications
- Gohlke, F. W. (2010). "42.30 N". "Spatial Practices # 10: Process-Landscape and Text", 21-22, 107-124.More infoHerbert Gottfried
Presentations
- Gohlke, F. W. (2015, December). Curiouser and Curiouser. Artist Lecture and Workshop. Seattle, Washington: Photographic Center North West.
- Gohlke, F. W. (2014, April). The Wild Apples of Kazakhstan. South and Central Asia Fulbright Research Workshop. Bishkek and Aurora Issyk Kul, Kyrgyz Republic: US Embassy, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.More infoA small meeting of the Central Asia Fulbright Student Research Fellows and Fulbright Scholars.
- Gohlke, F. W. (2014, Feb.). The Wild Apples of Kazkahstan. The Next Conversation. Tucson, AZ: Center for Creative Photography.More infoA gathering of people involved in every facet of the world of photography - artists, curators, scholars, critics, students, and others that elude the above categories. My talk was the evening before the official beginning of the event.
- Gohlke, F. W. (2014, March). The Wild Apples of Kazakhstan. South and Central Asia Fulbright Conference. Chennai, India: United States-India Educational Foundation, Fulbright Commission in India.More infoI presented my Fulbright Research Project on the Environment Panel on the third day of the conference. There were 95 presentations (see attachment), but the total attendance was closer to 200.
- Gohlke, F. W. (2012, Fall). "America in View".. "Lanscape Views:Reflections of Ourselves".. RISD Museum of Art.More infoPanel Speaker
- Gohlke, F. W. (2012, Fall). :Miles and Miles of Things I've Never Seen".. Solo Exhibition. University Art Museum, UMass Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA.More infoIndividual Presenter
- Gohlke, F. W. (2010, Spring). "Thoughts on Landscape:' A Reading. New Topographics exhibition. CCP auditorium.More infoIndividual Presenter
- Gohlke, F. W. (2010, Spring). Frank Gohlke. California College of the Arts. Oakland, California.
- Gohlke, F. W. (2010, Spring). Frank Gohlke. San Francisco Photo Alliance. San Francisco Art Institute.
Creative Works
- "Landscape-- Los Angeles 1974", Numbers 1, 2, and 3; Photography; Benjamin Grillon Studio; September 2018; "Californian Blue"; I have correspondence confirming this publication, but I have questions about it. It's a real place, and the director has some impressive clients in the fashion and media worlds; but their website says nothing about book publishing. We'll have to wait and see.
- "Building in the shadow of a grain elevator, Cashion, Oklahoma 1973; Photography; Museum of Modern Art; September 2015; "Photography at MoMA: 1960 to Now"; Overview of MoMA's collection since 1960.
- Mount St. Helens photographs, 1981 and 1982; RISD Museum; September 2012; America in View: American Landscape Photography 1865 to now
- "Interview"; Terrain Publishing; September 2011; "Terrain.org: A journal of the built and natural environments. Issue 27:Image.""; Each issue of "Terrain.org", which has been on the web since 1997, features an interview with a person whose work and interests are relevant to the theme of the issue in question. Mr. Buntin asked me to contribute an interview or a guest editorial, and I chose the former.
- Two black and white photographs.; Nevada Museum of Art and Skira Rizzoli; September 2011; "The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment."; Catalogue of an exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, of one of the major collections of late twentieth-century landscape photography in the US.
- 88 photographs; Stories in the Dirt, Stories in the Air (autobiographical and theoretical text accompanying photographs.)text; Amon Carter Museum and Center for American Places; September 2007; Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke;
- Three photographs from Mount St. Helens; Boston University Art Gallery; September 2007; To Fly: Contemporary Aerial Photography;
- One black-and-white photograph.; University of California, Riverside, California Museum of Photography; October 2011; "Seismic Shift: Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal and California Landscape Photography, 1944-1984."
- "Grain Elevators and Lightning, Lamesa, Texas"; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; October 2008; "Masterpiece Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Curatorial Legacy of Carroll T. Hartwell";
- Two color photographs from "42.30N: A Line on the Land"; Olivares and Associates, Madrid, Spain; November 2010; "Exit -Image and Culture #38:Silent Landscapes."; I don't know how this journal got my name. I was notified in the fall that I would be in the issue, but my copy didn't come until 2011, so I put it in this year.
- Two diptychs from "Aftermath: the Wichita Falls, Texas Tornado, 1979-1980."; Phoenix Art Museum; March 2010; "Exposing Time"
- Photograph: "Aerial view: Downed forest near Elk Rock - Mount St. Helens, Washington 1981."; Museum of Modern Art; March 2009; "Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West."
- Flight and the Artistic Imagination; June
- Four black-and-white photographs.; Fundacion Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain; June 2011; "La Morada del Hombre [The Dwelling Life of Man]: Coleccion Martin Z. Margulies."; Hardcover book of 221 pages that accompanied an exhibition of the same name at the Fundacion Foto Colectania in Barcelona, Spain.
- Sublime Catastrophe; Prose; Cleveland Museum of Art; January 2013; Cleveland Art (Member Magazine); My current reflections on the work I did at Mount St. Helens 1981-1990. SEE ABOVE "Creative Procuvtion and Performance" I didn't know which one was more appropriate.
- Photograph; Robert Lehman Art Center at Brooks School, Andover, MA; April 2010; "On the Road: A Legacy of Walker Evans."
- The Lure of Rivers; Prose; George F. Thompson Publishing; 2019; "L. A. River" Photographs and Text by Michael Kolster; 67 Ambrotypes by Michael Kolster of Brunswick, ME.
