Mt. St. Helens shrouded in its own cloud - from a point 6 miles NW of Mt. St. Helens, Wash.
Artist: Frank Gohlke (American, born 1942)
Date: 1983
Dimensions:
Image: 17 3/4 x 21 7/8 in. (450 x 556 mm)
Sheet: 20 x 23 7/8 in. (505 x 606mm)
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchased with funds given by Lynn Whitney and Claude Fixler and with funds from the Frederick B. and Kate L. Shoemaker Fund
Object number: 2001.17
Label Text:“The best landscape images, whatever their medium and whatever other emotions they may evoke… propose the possibility of an intimate connection with a world to which we have access only through our eyes, a promise containing its own denial.”
Frank Gohlke has spent the greater part of his career exploring the particular qualities of places as wide-ranging as the open plains of north Texas, the landscapes of central France and the southern United States, and Mount St. Helens in Washington in the aftermath of violent volcanic eruption.
This and the adjacent photograph come from a continuing series of images that Gohlke has taken around the volcano, beginning shortly after the 1979 eruption. He began to compile a sequential visual document of the area, chronicling the dynamic and unstoppable force of nature and its parallels with the impact of the forestry industry on the same area.
Frank Gohlke has spent the greater part of his career exploring the particular qualities of places as wide-ranging as the open plains of north Texas, the landscapes of central France and the southern United States, and Mount St. Helens in Washington in the aftermath of violent volcanic eruption.
This and the adjacent photograph come from a continuing series of images that Gohlke has taken around the volcano, beginning shortly after the 1979 eruption. He began to compile a sequential visual document of the area, chronicling the dynamic and unstoppable force of nature and its parallels with the impact of the forestry industry on the same area.
DescriptionPresentation size gelatin silver print. Titled by the artist in black pen below the image. Artist's catalogue number in pencil on verso.
Presentation size gelatin silver print. Titled by the artist in black pen below the image. Artist's catalogue number in pencil on verso.
Presentation size gelatin silver print. Titled by the artist in black pen below the image. Artist's catalogue number in pencil on verso.
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