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Accommodating Nature:
The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
April 12-July 13, 2008
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Frank Gohlke (b. 1942)
Grain Elevator and Lightning Flash, Lamesa, Texas, 1975
gelatin silver print
© 1975 Frank Gohlke
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Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke, a major mid-career retrospective of the artist Frank Gohlke will be on view at the Addison this spring. A leading figure in American landscape photography, Gohlke takes pictures that explore how we live and build our lives surrounded by a natural world that rarely meets our ideals and expectations. Whether photographing Wichita Falls, Texas, where he grew up; the grain elevators that punctuate the vast spaces of the Midwest; changes brought by the 1980 volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens; or the neighborhoods of Queens, New York, Gohlke’s camera deftly captures the tension between humanity and nature, exploring how people adapt to the forces of nature both great and small, even within the confines of their own backyards.
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke is 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 Addison presentation is generously supported by the Addison Gallery Museum Program Fund.
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