Todd Walker at 100; Frank Gohlke, Speeding Trucks and Other Follies @ Etherton Gallery

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Todd Walker at 100; Frank Gohlke, Speeding Trucks and Other Follies @ Etherton Gallery

November 1st, 2017 by fstop

Todd Walker: ©️The Todd Walker Image Trust, courtesy Etherton Gallery

Todd Walker at 100; Frank Gohlke, Speeding Trucks and Other Follies
November 18th, 2017-January 6, 2018.

Reception, 7-10pm, Saturday, November 18th, 2017

“Todd Walker was among the generation of West Coast photographers working in the 1960s who questioned the philosophical underpinnings of modernist photography as established by Beaumont Newhall and Ansel Adams. He was a great experimenter and innovator. He led the world of photography with his revival of 19th century photographic processes as well as early digital photography. He experimented with commercial printing processes — not unlike Warhol and Rauschenberg — but also made hand-made artist books based on Shakespeare’s sonnets and 17th century English literature. He also predicted the ascendance of digital photography and the decline of darkroom photography. Walker was invited to teach at the University of Arizona in 1977 and retired in 1985.

Frank Gohlke is a leading American landscape photographer, who was among the photographers included the seminal show, New Topographics. He is Professor Laureate at the University of Arizona, here in Tucson. Gohlke is best known for his quietly penetrating images of the American vernacular landscape — grain elevators (silos), trucks, campers, small town and suburban street scenes. We are debuting work that will be featured in his forthcoming Steidl publication, Speeding Trucks and Other Follies. Speeding Trucks brings together three bodies of work made very early in Gohlke’s career, 1971-72. We will also present a small installation of the grain elevator photographs.”

Etherton Gallery
135 South 6th Avenue
Tucson, AZ 85701

Location: Arizona, Tucson, United States Type: Exhibition

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