School of Art Newsletter Fall 07 vol. 2 issue 1

Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke

Frank Gohlke, Professor of Photography at the School of Art and the first Senior Fellow of the Institute for Photographic Research at the Center for Creative Photography, is a prominent and internationally-acclaimed figure in American photography.

His work has been exhibited in museums around the world and is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, among others. He is best known for large format landscape photographs covering a geographical territory that includes New England, the southern and Midwestern United States, a post-eruption Mount St. Helens, and central France. During his impressive career, Gohlke has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and two Guggenheim Fellowships. 

His most recent achievement is his exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas:  Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke. Established by the Amon G. Carter Foundation, the museum opened in 1961 and is recognized as one of the most influential museums to house and exhibit American art.  After its stay in Fort Worth, Accommodating Nature will be exhibited at the Center for Creative Photography from August through October of 2008. 

In the words of Doug Nickel, former Director of the Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona is “an international leader in training the next generation of photography curators and university-based historians of photography”.  The arrival of Frank Gohlke and his involvement with the School of Art and the CCP as both educator and scholar marks the University’s readiness to move ahead into a future that emphasizes its recognition of photography as an integrated discipline of creation and scholarship.