The Getty Museum, California held an exhibition titled,
Frederick Sommer: A Centennial Tribute
(May 10 – September 4, 2005) and had a a great webpage,
"Preview Art" in relation to
the exhibit.
The remaining list here is an unedited, unorganized and incomplete compilation of links to pages
mentioning Frederick Sommer. In many locations the information is not current
enough to reflect recent scholarship or simply contain incorrect facts (there
are plenty of myths about Sommer and his methods). This list is simply our
effort to keep track of posts related to Sommer.
Due to the nature of such links (and our own limited interest in personally
re-checking them monthly) if they have become defunct and should be removed,
please let me know.
“About” photography entry…with lead to feature article at bottom
here
“About” feature article, Frederick Sommer – Surrealist Master: sight into
insight
here
Getty Museum, three images each with descriptive text.
(Arizona Landscape, 1945; Max Ernst, 1946; Virgin and Child, 1966)
here
Masters of Photography – several images
here
Margarett Loke’s obit, NY Times Feb 1, 1999
here
Partial holdings at SFMOMA
here
Cleveland Museum site search results
here
Cleveland Museum bio page
here
AfterImage, offering a copy for sale of Kevin Begos’ “Birth of Venus”
photogravure portfolio of five Frederick Sommer collages and separately a print
of Coyotes, 1945.
here
Walton Mendelson’s site
here
Norton Simon – Paracelsus and very out-of-focus nude
here
Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame…has Paracelsus on group page
here
JH Campbell’s nine images plus some text excerpted from “Words” (CCP, 1984)
here
Museum of New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts
The Beyond Realism exhibit, with a Sommer link to the right.
here
George Eastman House (GEH), Visual Mind
with link to “Eight Young Roosters, 1938”
and “Moon Culmination, 1951”
here
Background Mr. Hugunin’s efforts…here…presumably
leading to the article:
Mixed Up With Objects: Meditations on Frederick Sommer’s Photographs (a 25pg article by James R. Hugunin, copyright 1987)
here
Smithsonian holdings of interviews of Sommer (1975)
One by Cynthia McCabe 07/07/1975
One by Alex Jamison 07/26/1975
here
Description of Michael Torosian’s book,
“The Constellations That Surround Us” with cut paper illustration,
here. The interview originally published by Torosian will be reprinted, allowing wider
access to the out-of-print limited edition text, in The Art of Frederick Sommer
(Yale University Press, 2005)
Jargon Press – would be remiss not to include Mr. Williams’ site.
There’s mention of Sommer in a place or two.
here
Jonathan Bailey with a few mentions of Frederick Sommer
here
Alan Magee’s ‘portrait’ of Fred
here
Quotes, some by Frederick Sommer
here
Asian site with Moon Culmination, 1951
here
Oonajide Shabaka musing on his own work, surrealism and Sommer
here
Margarita Nieto’s “Mapping of a Decade: Los Angeles During the 1930’s,
here,
Fred is mentioned in part two.
Review of 1999 Baltimore Show.
here
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