Larry Fink and Frank Gohlke – two shows to know about
Larry Fink is a Vanity Fair photographer and through August 15 Pace/MacGill gallery in NYC is showing a strong group of photos he took on this year’s Democratic Presidential nomination trail. There are two shots of Obama that are especially unforgettable: in one, Obama is swarmed by handlers and an adoring crowd and the other he is alone against the sky – a sliver of a man getting off his plane while two handlers wait for him at the bottom of the stairs. For Clinton, I agree with the review in The Week – I love the shot of Hillary speaking while in the foreground a woman is changing her baby’s diaper, as well as “Busville, USA” – a shot of her entourage/press in their bus all on computers. See 29 of these candid images by clicking on “Selected Images”on the site.
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A photographer who focuses his eye on how we interact with the natural world around us, Frank Gohlke (represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery in NYC) will be the upcoming show at The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, AZ (Aug. 16 -Nov. 2). Gohlke first made his mark in 1975 when his work was included in the famous iconic show “New Topographics: Images of a Man-Altered Landscape” at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film (Rochester, NY). Others in that show were Robert Adams, Stephen Shore, Bernd and Hilla Becher and Nicholas Nixon. Try and buy a first edition catalog from that landmark show now and it will set you back about $2000.00.
Grain Elevator and Lightning Flash, Lamesa TX, 1975 © 1975 Frank Gohlke
Interestingly enough, Frank Gohlke also wrote the introduction to Maine photographer Rose Marasco’s (USM Art Department Professor) “The Maine Grange” project from several years back. Also, one of his images of the Sudbury River in MA is featured in the current photography exhibition “Landscape Photography – Politics and Poetics” at Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick and reviewed in a posting here last week.
