ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART
Phillips Academy, Andover
April 12 to July 13, 2008
Grain Elevator, Homewood, Kansas1973
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. (Press release)
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