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In 1980, Frank Gohlke was commissioned by the Tulsa Airport Trust to create photomurals for the city’s new international airport. While there, he made a series of aerial photographs, including this image of a newly constructed freeway interchange. Gohlke was one of ten artists included in the groundbreaking exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape (1975) at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. Gohlke sought to counteract the romanticized style of depicting the American landscape that was common among previous generations of photographers; instead, he documented the effects of modern intervention in the natural world. Gohlke asks the viewer to consider landscape photography as a human-defined concept.
DimensionsSheet: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Image: 6 1/8 × 18 5/8 in. (15.6 × 47.3 cm)
Image: 6 1/8 × 18 5/8 in. (15.6 × 47.3 cm)
Accession Number 2017.146
Classificationsphotograph
SignedFrank W. Gohlke 1982 (l,r verso in graphite)
InscriptionsAerial view - Tulsa, Okla. 1981 (l,l verso in graphite); A.R. 94/100 (l,c verso in graphite)
Edition94/100
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963
