PMy initial response to Gohlke's photography was to notice they are mostly landscape photographs of mundane man made constructs, to then wonder what the meaning was for doing this. I feel it is to document what we are doing to natural landscapes and potentially ruining them by urbanisation and suburbanisation. The reason Gohlke began shooting photographs like these was because no one had done it before, and him and nine other artists felt the same way in that they were bored of the generic, beautiful landscape photography and decided to do the complete oposite.
I feel the meaning or purpose would be to be exhibited in galleries, this is because it is clear this work is personal work. He has chosen to take these photographs because he wants to, not to be paid to do so. The work would be successful in galleries in that it makes the viewer think about what it means, my impression is that it reveals reality behind a made up lifestyle by the brand on the front of the billboard.
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