Mt. St. Helens shrouded in its own cloud - from a point 6 miles NW of Mt. St. Helens, Wash.

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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)

Date1983

DimensionsImage: 17 3/4 x 21 7/8 in. (450 x 556 mm)
Sheet: 20 x 23 7/8 in. (505 x 606mm)

MediumGelatin silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LinePurchased 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

Not on View

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.

Label TextThe 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.Published Referencescf. Kathy Poole, "Mount St. Helens: Photographs by Frank Gohlke," Landscape Journal 13:2 (fall 1994): 1984-86. cf. Ingrid Sischy, "Frank Gohlke," The New Yorker, May 17, 1992. cf. The Landscape as Resource: Four Contemporary American Photographers, Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, 1990. cf. Life Cycles, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, 2000. cf. Gregory Conniff, Frank Gohlke, Two Days in Louisiana, Milwaukee Art Museum, 1989. cf. Landscapes from the Middle of the World, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 1988. cf. Frank Gohlke, "A Volatile Core, Mt St Helens," Aperture no. 98 (spring 1985): 28-35. cf. Mt. St. Helens: Work in Progress, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1983. cf. Rebecca Adams, "Reconciliation with Geography: Photographs by Frank Gohlke," Aperture no. 86 (1983): 40-51. cf. New Topographics, International Museum of Photography, Rochester, 1973.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, New Acquisitions in Graphic Arts, Dec. 21, 2001-March 30, 2002.

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