Current Events - updated
January 6, 2012
Here we 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
The
Exhibition Archive has a list of past and
recent shows.
Current & Upcoming exhibits (sorted by closing date) –
Tate, Britain
January 13, 2012
Symposium "Landscape and Eschatology" with a presentation by John Timberlake on
Frederick Sommer.
Closing soon
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
May 13, 2011 - February 2012
Includes Sommer's "Smoke on Cellophane 5, 1961" as part of the current
photography exhibit.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
"Modernist Photography: 1910 - 1950"
July 30, 2011 - April 1, 2012
Includes Sommer, Sheeler, Weston, Siskind, Levitt.
Two reviews are posted at MFA, Boston's site.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London This is a pretty nice
webpage about Frederick Sommer.
The best books readily available on Sommer:
Callahan, Siskind, Sommer - At the Crossroads of American
Photography by Britt Salvesen and Keith F. Davis (2009)
:
Radius Press Book description :
This is a great look at the three artists in parallel along with excellent
essays from Keith and Britt - Jeremy Cox
The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage
This 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.
Recognition for the book included an
Independent Publishers Winner of the Fine Art
category, 2005;
ARLIS Wittenborn Memorial Book Awards
Recognized for Excellence in Art Publication; and a .
Maine Photographic Workshops
Golden Light Award
Book of the Year 2005
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."
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