Frank Gholke
www.frankgohlke.com
http://places.designobserver.com/feature/frank-gohlke-thoughts-on-landscape/12888/
Gohlke's work is marked with a preoccupation of framing landscapes as a made construct: an example of the way we live, a projection of human actions, ideals and aspirations onto the horizon. Within a landscape is where human and natural worlds collide, Gohlke's view is that humanities power is limited, fragile and temporary. Within his works he gazes upon landscapes that vary in scale, highly mundane images such as lawns, rivers and fields. his approach to photography (alike to the other 'new topographic' photographers) reveals a matter of fact style, true images not to be tampered with, something i try to do when creating my own work with minimal editing.
http://places.designobserver.com/feature/frank-gohlke-thoughts-on-landscape/12888/
Gohlke's work is marked with a preoccupation of framing landscapes as a made construct: an example of the way we live, a projection of human actions, ideals and aspirations onto the horizon. Within a landscape is where human and natural worlds collide, Gohlke's view is that humanities power is limited, fragile and temporary. Within his works he gazes upon landscapes that vary in scale, highly mundane images such as lawns, rivers and fields. his approach to photography (alike to the other 'new topographic' photographers) reveals a matter of fact style, true images not to be tampered with, something i try to do when creating my own work with minimal editing.
"There is something peculiar about the way we attribute the clarity of some photographs to the world itself. I try to reinforce that paradox by making photographs that convince the viewer that those revelations, that order, that potential for meaning, are coming from the world and not the photograph."
— Frank Gohlke, 1979