"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.

The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage

Arts & Photography

Keith F. Davis

Michael Torosian

April Watson

Individual Artists

Yale University Press

First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 250 hand-numbered copies, this being copy number 226. (Copies 1-200 were retained for the exclusive use of the Harold Greenberg Gallery). Hardcover. Custom-designed paper-covered boards, based on Frantisek Drtikol's photograph "Thorns," designed by Michael Torosian and printed in 10 micron stochastic four-color offset lithography on 100% rag Somerset paper; with Asahi Japanese cloth-covered spine and paper title label, no dust jacket as issued; contained in a terra cotta mould made paper-covered slipcase. Photographs by Edward Steichen, Karl Struss, W. Eugene Smith, Lewis Hine, Dave Heath, Sid Grossman, Walker Evans, Consuelo Kanaga, Leon Levinstein, Dorothea Lange, Jan Lauschmann, Les Krims, Enrique Aznar, Roman Vishniac, Ruth Orkin, Weegee, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Julia Margaret Cameron, Frantisek Drtikol, Garry Winogrand, Bruce Davidson, Ted Croner, Roy DeCarava, Saul Leiter and William Klein. Essay by Lyle Rexer. Photographs selected and annotated by Harold Greenberg. Edited with an introduction by Michael Torosian. Includes a chronology of exhibitions held at the Harold Greenberg Gallery. Design, composition, presswork and binding by Michael Torosian. 104 pp., with 26 tipped-in plates exquisitely printed using 10 micron stochastic four-color offset lithography on Utopia Premium paper. Each plate is bordered in a matt grey ink and varnished. Digital scans by Laumont, with offset printing by C.J. Graphics, Inc., Printers and Lithographers. Text composed in Kennerley Old Style on an Intertype Model C4; with additional Parsons display typeface. Printed letterpress on a Vandercook Universal III press on Nideggen mold-made paper. Book measures 11-1/2 x 8-3/16 inches; slipcase is 11-3/4 x 8-1/4 inches.

An American Gallery, Howard Greenberg 25, Twenty Five Years of Photography, Limited Edition

Lyle Rexer

Howard, Greenberg

Lumiere Press

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