As a child, I was always fascinated seeing my dad’s first cousin, Frank Gohlke , take the big family portrait at the bi-annual Ross family reunions. Although I secretly yearned for a chance to look under the dark cloth of Frank’s old-fashioned looking view camera , I never could muster enough courage to ask for a peek.
Now, Fort Worth’s Amon Carter Museum is giving all of us a great opportunity to peek at Frank Gohlke’s photographs. Accomodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke is a mid-career retrospective of Frank’s photographs that, according to the Carter Museum, "depict how Americans build their lives within a natural world that rarely matches the pastoral ideal."
The show runs from September 15, 2007 to January 8, 2008. On September 15, the museum is hosting a "dialogue" with Frank titled How I Found My Way by Getting Lost: A Photographer’s Odyssey . Frank is an eloquent speaker who always (IMHO) has something interesting to say. Here’s Frank talking about one of my favorite photographs of his:
In addition, my friends at the Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery in Dallas will be exhibiting 40 of Frank’s photographs as well. Stop by the PDNB Gallery on September 15 for their Artist Reception from 6-8 pm. http://www.pdnbgallery.com/
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places) - this is the soon-to-be-released book published in conjunction with the show at the Amon Carter Museum.
