Frank Gohlke was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1942.  He began taking photographs in dead earnest in 1967, when his plans for a career teaching English Literature foundered on the rocky shoals of a massive writer’s block.  He has been fortunate enough to be able to keep photography at the center of a life whose richness includes three daughters, two grandchildren, and many wonderful friends.  He has primarily been a photographer of landscapes, but that could always change.

42 30 North is a collaboration between a photographer, Frank Gohlke, and a poet and landscape historian, Herbert Gottfried.  It is a survey of the land within a single line of latitude, Forty two degrees Thirty minutes North, from the Atlantic Ocean at Marblehead, Massachusetts, to the Massachusetts-New York state boundary, a strip approximately one mile wide by 165 miles long.  The project makes no pretense of exhaustiveness, celebrating instead the arbitrariness of boundaries and the centrality of imagination in transforming terrain into place.  (frankgohlke.com)