Current Events - updated
June 12, 2008
On this page we will try to keep up on happenings related
to Frederick
Sommer (b.
September 7, 1905 – d. January 23, 1999). Auction offerings and results we
are informed of, exhibits and more if possible. Additional information is posted as
it becomes available.
Click for info about the development of a
catalogue raisonne
Current & Upcoming exhibits –
Yale University Art Gallery "From Any Angle: Photographs from
the Collection of Doris Bry" May 23 - September 7, 2008
includes an early landscape by Frederick Sommer.
Our thanks to Sarah Stolfa and Ash Anderson for their excellent correspondence
on this project.
Haunch of Venison, London will potentially include a
piece in an exhibition this fall (Sept. 12 to Nov. 21), and in late January 2009 a
significant group at the
Scottsdale Museum of Art ( SMOCA ). Dates and
further details will be posted when confirmed with the gallery.
Book Info -
Winter, 2006
of
Photo-Eye Magazine includes an article covering
Sommer's publications. Be sure to scroll down to 'old and rare' for another
page.
David Levi-Strauss has written an article on Frederick Sommer in a recent issue of
Aperture (Fall 2006) that is worth reading.
The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage
The new book is widely available with several
reviews
since the release in May 2005.
Distributed by
Yale University Press, New Haven and London (ISBN
0-300-10783-8), for the Frederick & Frances Sommer
Foundation.
Independent Publishers chose The Art of Frederick Sommer
as winner of the Fine Art
category in the national competition of books published in 2005 (announced May
2006).
Press release (May 2006) for the
ARLIS Wittenborn Memorial Book Awards
where the The Art of Frederick Sommer was one of six books recognized for
excellence in art publications at the 34th annual conference held this year in Banff,
Alberta, Canada.
Golden Light Award
Book of the Year 2005, from the
Maine Photographic Workshops announced October 13 and the
Full List of winners
and honorable mentions for all categories.
MUSIC -
The music from Consent to Gravity
as composed by
Christopher Eastburn
is now available
on CD from Chris's listing at
CD Baby.
To elaborate on the connection, C.E. -
"In thinking about writing vocal music for ANY project, a primary
question is "What are the words?" Very fortunately Frederick Sommer left a
treasure trove of those, in his writings, poems and lectures. These contain
wonderfully rich lines such as "Ideas and
thoughts collide and sort themselves out in these fruitful collisions",
"The Art of Vermeer must have been there
on the morning of creation", "Ideas
and art are the possibility of an answer tomorrow."
So how does a text become a song? In approaching a set of words composers or
songwriters often consider the images, meaning and feelings contained within the
texts. Words or passages such as "collide", or "Vermeer", or "morning of
creation" can trigger musical ideas or possibilities. The speech rhythms of a
text also come in to play. You speak it aloud and listen to the rhythms and
inflections. They can indicate a feeling of meter and melodic shape. Your
concepts and intuitions may start to meld. What you are doing musically can
become consciously and subconsciously interwoven with the feeling of the text.
You may feel in the end that you wrote very little and just listened carefully
for the music already there- in this case, the music sounding in Frederick
Sommer's brilliant texts."
'Recent' Auction Results -
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Recent
Online (eBay) auction results -
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