FRAJNDLICH
FOTOGRAPHS
FRAJNDLICH FOTOGRAPHS PORTFOLIOS & EARLY WORK THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS
For Regina and Reuven, who never crossed into the Promised Land, but who got there nonetheless.
....His existence, like any existence, is inferential.... the traces he leaves behind him....fossils....fading violet photos, old newspaper clippings shredding to yellow dust....the memory of those who knew him or thought they did.... from The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
which much later, in tranquility, we feebly attempt to interpret and make coherent. it’s about seeing. and all the things that get in the way of that simple act. and it’s about visual communication and how potentially ambiguous its transmission from one person to another can be. it’s about the myriad “bliks,” or personal perspectives, each of us carries in our brain and being. about those axiomatics, that more often than not, just dont’t fully add up. and that great distance between what is, and what might be, that endless ocean that forever separates the two.
and to that ongoing apparently nonstop party each of us brings our individual toys, that we expect to share with the others. or to put it another way, as John Barth so aptly expressed it, “it’s all like a floating opera,” performed on a boat going up or down the river, and from the small bits
of the play we each of us catch, and from the scattered gossip that we hear, we try to make sense of the totality. and of course we’re doomed to fail. the totality is non sense. only the details, the specifics are apprehendable. only the Now exists, and the camera records that eternal intersection of time and space, and maybe a taste of even more dimensions,
and pictures are like that, but maybe even more so. just opening the shutter will get you in for ma tion, but information is often not enough. sometimes you just need to penetrate to the next level of knowing to the bedrock of epis te mo lo gy
and try to reach those layers adjacent if not at the source. and the glove, linked somehow to the hand of creation, is ever there, hovering within our consciousness, as we try to take it all in. the glove, also the interlocutor, questions all and everything. when a photograph is not a statement, it is so often a question. and as such, it keeps bringing us back by refusing to shed it’s overwhelming ambiguity. yes this was seen
by the camera eye, but wasn’t it even more seen by the eye of the imagination, and isn’t that seeing more durable, than the diurnal. and then again maybe it was just the dreaming eye that truly saw.
abe frajndlich Born May 28, 1946, Frankfurt a/M, Germany Resides in New York City, NY
education BA, Northwestern University, Evanston, Il. Engl. Lit., 1968 MA, Northwestern University, Evanston, Il. Engl. Lit., 1970 Three-year residency with Minor White, Chairman of MIT Depart- ment of Photography 1964-1976, Arlington Hts., Mass., 1970-71, 1975-76 Study and work with Nathan Lyons, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, 1974-75 present position Freelance art, magazine and commercial photographer. Has worked for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Life, Art News, London Sunday Times, London Observer, N. Y. Times Magazine and many oth- ers in the U.S. and Europe. His book, Penelope’s Hungry Eyes: Portraits of Famous Photo raphers, is being published by Schirmer/Mosel Spring 2011.
selected solo exhibitions
Natalia Laue Gallery, Frankfurt, Frankfurt /New York 45 Photos, 2009 Jewish Museum, Frankfurt, Portraits, 101 Photos, 1970-2003 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 2002 Reygers Gallery, Munich, 2002, 2001 GSI Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, 2000 FotoForum International, Frankfurt, 1999 Infocus Gallery am Dom, Köln, Germany 1998 Fotogalerie Kulturamt Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany, 1997 FotoForum Frankfurt, Germany, 1997 Native Indian Museums-Travelling Show 1995-96 Leica Gallery, New York City, 1994 Thread Waxing Space, NYC, 1993 University of Delaware Museum of Art, 1993 Museum Ludwig, Köln, 1990 Dayton Art Institute, Experiencenter Gallery, Dayton, O., 1983 Zenith Gallery, Pittsburgh, Penn., 1983 Akron Museum of Art, Akron, Ohio, 1982 Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, 1981 The Photography Place, Philadelphia, Penn., 1979 Image Co-Op, Montpelier, Vermont, 1978 SohoPhoto Gallery, New York, N.Y., 1977 Musee Nicephore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France, 1977
Gallery of Photographic Arts, North Olmsted, Ohio, 1976 United States Senate, Washington, D.C., 1974 selected group exhibitions American Portraits, InFocus Gallery, Köln, 15 photos, 2011 Akte/Nudes, Galerie Tammen, Berlin, 25 photos, 2010 Fascination with the Body, Infocus Gallery, with Alvin Booth, 2007 22 photos Eyes of Time, Galerie Tammen, Berlin, 35 photos, 2006 Gifts to the Nation, National Portrait Galllery, Wash.D.C., 2006, 4 photos Esthetic of the Erotic IV, Leipzig Museum of Photography, 2005 Fifteen Years, Fifteen Photographers, inFocus Gallery, Köln, 2005 Photography from Private Collections, Foto, Forum International, Frankfurt, 2005 Exposed, Nudes of the 20th Century, Heilbronn Museum, with Weston, Brandt, Man Ray, Gibson, 2004, 2 photographs Nudes, inFocus Gallery, Köln, 2004, 2 photos Scapes: City & Land, Butler Institute of American Art, Trumbull, with Simona Frajndlich, 51 photographs Before, During and After 9/11, Dead Horse Gallery, Lakewood, Ohio, 2002, 20 photos
Portrait of the Art World, A Century of ARTnews Photos starting at the NY Historical Society, and travelling to four venues through 2004, 3 photos Princeton Art Museum, Peter Bunnell Exhibition, 2002, 2 photographs Art Bridge: New York-Cologne-New York, Edward Carter Gallery, NYC, 2001, 12 photos World Wildlife Fund Portfolio Exhibition, Der Hague, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Istanbul, 2000/ 2001, with 25 other international photographers Documentation/Manipulation in 20th Century Photography, curated by David Ebitz, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Fla., 1999, 20 photographs Photographic Portraits of Artists since 1945, curated by Michael Kohler, Museum Bad Arolsen, 1999, Stadtmuseum Hofheim am Taunus, 3/99 to 5/00. Eight portraits of Cindy Sherman, four portraits of Gilbert & George Master Photographs from the Permanent Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996, 1 photograph + inclusive catalogue, 15 photographs Museum Molkau, Leipzig, Germany, 1998 Leica Gallery, Two Person with Ralph Gibson, 1996 Thinking Print, Books to Billboards, 1980-95, MoMA, NYC, 1996, 9 photos as part of a Portfolio 500 Capp St. with David Ireland,text by John Ashberry The Essential Art: 140 Years of American Photography from the Ansel and Virginia Adams Col- lection, University ofArizona,
Center for Creative Photography traveling show, 1992, 1 photo Les Conserves de Nicephore, exhibition and catalog of permanent collection of Musee Nicephore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France, 10 photographs, 1992 May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1992, 1989, 1988, 1986, 1982, 1981, 1979, 1977, 1974, 1973 Inside Self someone else, Dayton Art Institute, with Eleanor Antin, Robert Arneson, Luis Azaceta, Jay Bolotin, Lynn Hershman, William Wiley, 1984 PhotoCollect, New York City, Two Person with Minor White, 1983 University of Florida Art Department Gallery, Gainesville, Fla., Two-person exhibit with Chris Pekoc, 1982 Second Sight--Infra Red Survey, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, 1981, Show traveled in U.S. & Europe through 1984 New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, Three-person exhibit, 1981 Personae, Mather Gallery, Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, Ohio, 1980 Summer Show, Daniel Wolf, New York, N.Y., 1980 The Automobile Image, MIT, Cambridge, Ma., 1980 Fotogalerij Paule Pia, Antwerp, Belgium, Two-person exhibit with Andre Kertesz, 1978 Focus Gallery, San Francisco, Two-person exhibit, 1978 New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio,
Two-person exhibit, 1977 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass., 1976 Gallery of Photographic Arts, North Olmsted, Ohio, Two-person exhibit with Ansel Adams, 1977 G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Beverly Hills, Cal., 1976 MIT, Cambridge, Mass., Two-person exhibit, 1976 Celebrations, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.,1974 Children: 1843-1973, Exchange National Bank, Chicago, 1973
selected collections
Akron Museum of Art, Akron, Ohio Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France Butler Institute American Art, Youngstown, O. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio George Eastman House, Rochester, New York Jewish Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Ludwig Museum, Köln, Germany M.I.T. Cambridge, Mass. Musee Nicephore Niepce, International Museum of Photography, Chalon-sur-Saone. Museum of Modern Art, New York City Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, Cal. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. New Mexico Museum Fine Arts, SantaFe, NM
Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, N.J. John and Mabel Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, Cal. Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida University of Arizona, Tempe, Center of Creative Photography Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York Whitney Museum of Art, NYC
Francine & Benson Piloff, Cleveland & Raleigh, N. Carolina Hans-Georg & Bernadette Pospischil, Frankfurt, Progressive Corp., Cleveland, Ohio and Albany, NY James Rosenquist, NYC Don Sanders, Houston, Texas Shearman & Sterling, Frankfurt, Germany Lothar Schirmer, Munich Standard Oil Corp., Cleveland Target Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota Jürgen Tesch, Berlin and Munich Michael Trapp, Frankfurt
selected corporate & private collections
monographs
Henry Adams, Cleveland Bank One, Chicago, Illinois Tom & Katherine Ball, Cleveland Baker & Hostetler, Cleveland Peter Bunnell, Princeton, N.J. AGA Burdox, Stockholm, Sweden Anita & Toby Cosgrove, Cleveland Nancy Dickenson, Santa Fe, New Mexico Harry Drake, Minneapolis, Minn Milton Esterow, NYC Agnes Gund, NYC Eikoh Hosoe, Tokyo Huntington Bank, Columbus, Ohio Bill Jacklin, Newport, R.I. Kopperman & Wolf, Cleveland Peter Lewis, NYC, Miami and Cleveland Gilbert Lloyd, London Herbert Locher, Shanghai & Köln McKinsey & Company, Cleveland Ohio Savings, Cleveland
Abe Frajndlich Portraits, Prestel Publishing, Munich, London, New York, 2000, 83 photos Eros Eterna, Unschau Braus, Heideberg, Germany, 1999, 115 photos Masters of Light, Catalog to exhibition at Museum Ludwig, 1990, 54 photos Lives I’ve Never Lived: A Portrait of Minor White, ARC Press, Cleveland, Ohio, 1983, 83 photographs Cleveland Infra Red, Publix Imprints, Cleveland, Ohio, 1981, 83 photos Figments, ARC Press, Boston, 1975, 58 photos
portfolios 500 CAPP, Collaboration with David Ireland, John Ashberry, and Gunner Kaldewey, Kaldewey Press, Edition 46, 1995 Glove, Collaboration with painter, Chris Pekoc, 12 photographs, ARC Press, Edition 50, 1982 Homage to Yukio Mishima, Introduction by Eikoh Hosoe, 12 photographs, ARC Press, Edition 35, 1980 Entropic Freeze, Introductory quote from Nathaniel West’s Miss Lonelyhearts, ARC Press, Edition 35, 1980 Cleveland Infra Red, Introduction by Peter Lewis, 12 photographs, ARC Press, Edition of 60, 1980 Lives I’ve Never Lived: A Portrait of Minor White, Intro by Douglas Neil Prudden, 12 photos, Cleveland, Ohio, Edition 50, 1979 Private Figments, Intro by D. N. Prudden,12 photos, Boston, Mass., edition of 25, 1975
WORKSHOPS AND TEACHING
Abe Frajndlich has lectured and taught photography workshops in the U.S., Germany and Italy on Portraiture, The City, and The Nude, and the Self-Portrait for a number of years.
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