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By Frank Gohlke

Frank Gohlke has been a number one determine in American panorama images for over thirty years. He has photographed grain silos in Minnesota, the aftermath of a twister in Texas, the destruction and rebirth of the land after the Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington, and a river’s quiet direction in Massachusetts. His is a profession of deep, unbroken contemplation of the long-lasting panorama and of our position inside of it. And for almost so long as Gohlke has been photographing the panorama, he has been writing approximately it.

In the spirit of Henri Cartier-Bresson's seminal booklet, "The Mind’s Eye", and Robert Adams's "Beauty in Photography", Gohlke’s writings on images span from the philosophical to the non-public. In interviews, essays, artist statements, and lectures, Gohlke focuses either on his personal paintings and lifestyles, and at the works and lives of the photographers round him. Woven all through is his affection for and loyalty to the panorama round him, and his uncanny skill to exhibit the richness of his adventure to readers—in phrases simply as in images.

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