Frank Gohlke Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Frank Gohlke
Frank Gohlke: A Chronicle of the American Landscape Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1942, Frank Gohlke’s artistic journey began not with grand ambitions but with a simple camera and an early fascination with capturing the world around him. His initial foray into photography as a teenager, fueled by membership in the Wichita Falls Camera Club, quickly evolved beyond family snapshots, leading to a deep engagement with process – learning
to enlarge prints and mastering the technical aspects of gelatin silver development. This foundational period, marked by a subsequent abandonment of photography before graduating high school, reveals a complex relationship with the medium: an initial disinterest followed by a powerful return driven by a desire to truly *see* and document. Gohlke’s formal education provided a crucial springboard for his artistic development. He initia…