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Hardcover The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage Book

ISBN: 0300107838

ISBN13: 9780300107838

The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage

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"In total acceptance, almost everything becomes a revelation."--Frederick Sommer

This stunning book--published in the artist's centenary--chronicles the extraordinary life and work of Frederick Sommer (1905-1999). One of the great masters and key innovators in the history of art photography, Sommer was a complex and highly creative individual. His work in photography is unconventional and fascinating for its wide range of methodologies and techniques. He also explored making images with other media, creating masterful drawings, collages, and musical scores.

Arriving in Arizona in 1931, Sommer abandoned his original profession, landscape architecture, and began painting and drawing. After meeting Alfred Stieglitz in 1935 and Edward Weston in 1936, Sommer embraced and quickly mastered photography. Other artists who later proved inspirational to Sommer included Precisionist painter and photographer Charles Sheeler, Surrealist artist Max Ernst, and photographer Aaron Siskind.


With an essay by photo historian Keith F. Davis, exquisite reproductions of Sommer's diverse works, and a detailed chronology of his life by April Watson, The Art of Frederick Sommer describesand documents the full extent of the artist's achievement as a twentieth-century visionary. The book is a revelation for scholars, artists, students, and everyone who admires and appreciates creative genius.

Distributed for the Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation


Exhibition Schedule:

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (May 14 - July 31, 2005)

Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana (September 11 - November 27, 2005)

The J. Paul Getty Museum (May 10 - September 4, 2005)

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