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I first met and photographed Cindy Sherman in Akron, Ohio in the Summer of 1984. Studying her images of herself in various personae before showing up for the shoot, the striking thing I realized was that she was essentially a shy person.Trusting my instincts on this, I showed up with a couple of small masks in whiteand black, as a way for her to maintain her privacy in front of a total stranger.This opened the door to that first encounter, and we made the photographs in an unhurried manner in a couple of hours, just prior to her opening event for a largeexhibition at the Akron Art Institute. We made a number of images that day inthe middle of August in that Orwellian year, in both medium format and 35 mm.

When I was asked by Vanity Fair to photograph Cindy in April of 1987, she already knew who I was, and she generously gave me three days to work withher in the Walker Street studio. Those were the halcyon days of photographicportraiture, where most artist/ subjects knew what a photo shoot involved, andwere willing to give a photographer the time needed to create the visual story.

These portraits are examples of the results of the Akron and the Walker Street shoots, and I feel that an extended portrait of Cindy begins to emerge, thatis a counterpoint to the images that she has made of herself since she began her black and white Film Stills in 1975. In the Akron shoot I was still making only black and white photos, but by the time I got to New York I had also begun to incorporate color film, and strobe lighting. My palette had begun to expand andthere was no better subject, than someone as open and unaffected as the CindySherman I worked with that Spring.

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abe frajndlich

Born May 28, 1946, Frankfurt a/M, GermanyResides in New York City, NY

education

BA, Northwestern University, Evanston, Il. Engl. Lit., 1968

MA, Northwestern University, Evanston, Il. Engl. Lit., 1970

Three-year residency with Minor White, Chairman of MIT Depart- ment of Photography 1964-1976, Arlington Hts., Mass., 1970-71, 1975-76

Study and work with Nathan Lyons, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, 1974-75

present position

Freelance art, magazine and commercial photographer. Has worked for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Life, Art News, London Sunday Times, London Observer, N. Y. Times Magazine and many oth- ers in the U.S. and Europe.

Currently working on Butoh Muse, with Japanese dancer, Minami Azu, and Frajndlich Fotographs, covering the early portfolios and the first twenty years.

selected solo exhibitions

Natalia Laue Gallery, Frankfurt, Frankfurt /New York 45 Photos, 2009

Jewish Museum, Frankfurt, Portraits, 101 Photos, 1970-2003 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 2002

Reygers Gallery, Munich, 2002, 2001

GSI Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, 2000

FotoForum International, Frankfurt, 1999

Infocus Gallery am Dom, Köln, Germany 1998

Fotogalerie Kulturamt Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany, 1997

FotoForum Frankfurt, Germany, 1997

Native Indian Museums-Travelling Show 1995-96

Leica Gallery, New York City, 1994

Thread Waxing Space, NYC, 1993

University of Delaware Museum of Art, 1993

Museum Ludwig, Köln, 1990

Dayton Art Institute, Experiencenter Gallery, Dayton, O., 1983

Zenith Gallery, Pittsburgh, Penn., 1983

Akron Museum of Art, Akron, Ohio, 1982

Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, 1981

The Photography Place, Philadelphia, Penn., 1979

Image Co-Op, Montpelier, Vermont, 1978

SohoPhoto Gallery, New York, N.Y., 1977

Musee Nicephore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France, 1977

Gallery of Photographic Arts, North Olmsted, Ohio, 1976

United States Senate, Washington, D.C., 1974

selected group exhibitions

American Portraits, InFocus Gallery, Köln, 15 photos, 2011Akte/Nudes, Galerie Tammen, Berlin, 25 photos, 2010

Fascination with the Body, Infocus Gallery, with Alvin Booth, 2007

22 photosEyes of Time, Galerie Tammen, Berlin, 35 photos, 2006

Gifts to the Nation, National Portrait Galllery, Wash.D.C., 2006, 4 photosEsthetic of the Erotic IV, Leipzig Museum of Photography, 2005

Fifteen Years, Fifteen Photographers, inFocus Gallery, Köln, 2005

Photography from Private Collections, Foto, Forum International, Frankfurt, 2005

Exposed, Nudes of the 20th Century, Heilbronn Museum, with Weston, Brandt, Man Ray, Gibson, 2004, 2 photographsNudes, inFocus Gallery, Köln, 2004, 2 photosScapes: City & Land, Butler Institute of American Art, Trumbull, with Simona Frajndlich, 51 photographsBefore, During and After 9/11, Dead Horse Gallery, Lakewood, Ohio, 2002, 20 photos

Portrait of the Art World, A Century of ARTnews Photos starting at the NY Historical Society, and travelling to four venues through 2004, 3 photosPrinceton Art Museum, Peter Bunnell Exhibition, 2002, 2 photographsArt Bridge: New York-Cologne-New York, Edward Carter Gallery, NYC, 2001, 12 photosWorld Wildlife Fund Portfolio Exhibition, Der Hague, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Istanbul, 2000/ 2001, with 25 other international photographersDocumentation/Manipulation in 20th Century Photography, curated by David Ebitz, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Fla., 1999, 20 photographsPhotographic Portraits of Artists since 1945, curated by Michael Kohler, Museum Bad Arolsen, 1999, Stadtmuseum Hofheim am Taunus, 3/99 to 5/00. Eight portraits of Cindy Sherman, four portraits of Gilbert & GeorgeMaster Photographs from the Permanent Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996, 1 photograph + inclusive catalogue, 15 photographs Museum Molkau, Leipzig, Germany, 1998

Leica Gallery, Two Person with Ralph Gibson, 1996 Thinking Print, Books to Billboards, 1980-95, MoMA, NYC, 1996, 9 photos as part of a Portfolio 500 Capp St. with David Ireland,text by John AshberryThe Essential Art: 140 Years of American Photography from the Ansel and Virginia Adams Col- lection, University ofArizona,

Center for Creative Photography traveling show, 1992, 1 photo Les Conserves de Nicephore, exhibition and catalog of permanent collection of Musee Nicephore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France, 10 photographs, 1992

May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, 1992, 1989, 1988, 1986, 1982, 1981, 1979, 1977, 1974, 1973

Inside Self someone else, Dayton Art Institute, with Eleanor Antin, Robert Arneson, Luis Azaceta, Jay Bolotin, Lynn Hershman, William Wiley, 1984

PhotoCollect, New York City, Two Person with Minor White, 1983

University of Florida Art Department Gallery, Gainesville, Fla., Two-person exhibit with Chris Pekoc, 1982

Second Sight--Infra Red Survey, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, 1981, Show traveled in U.S. & Europe through 1984

New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, Three-person exhibit, 1981 Personae, Mather Gallery, Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, Ohio, 1980

Summer Show, Daniel Wolf, New York, N.Y., 1980

The Automobile Image, MIT, Cambridge, Ma., 1980

Fotogalerij Paule Pia, Antwerp, Belgium, Two-person exhibit with Andre Kertesz, 1978

Focus Gallery, San Francisco, Two-person exhibit, 1978

New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio,

Two-person exhibit, 1977

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass., 1976

Gallery of Photographic Arts, North Olmsted, Ohio, Two-person exhibit with Ansel Adams, 1977

G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Beverly Hills, Cal., 1976

MIT, Cambridge, Mass., Two-person exhibit, 1976

Celebrations, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.,1974

Children: 1843-1973, Exchange National Bank, Chicago, 1973

selected collections

Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OhioBiblioteque Nationale, Paris, FranceButler Institute American Art, Youngstown, O. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OhioCleveland State University, Cleveland, OhioGeorge Eastman House, Rochester, New YorkJewish Museum, Frankfurt, GermanyLudwig Museum, Köln, GermanyM.I.T. Cambridge, Mass.Musee Nicephore Niepce, International Museum of Photography, Chalon-sur-Saone. Museum of Modern Art, New York CityMuseum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, Cal.National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.New Mexico Museum Fine Arts, SantaFe, NM

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Centre George Pompidou, Paris, FrancePrinceton Art Museum, Princeton, N.J.John and Mabel Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FloridaSan Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, Cal.Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FloridaUniversity of Arizona, Tempe, Center of Creative PhotographyVictoria and Albert Museum, London, EnglandVisual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New YorkWhitney Museum of Art, NYC

selected corporate &private collections

Henry Adams, ClevelandBank One, Chicago, IllinoisTom & Katherine Ball, ClevelandBaker & Hostetler, ClevelandPeter Bunnell, Princeton, N.J.AGA Burdox, Stockholm, SwedenAnita & Toby Cosgrove, ClevelandNancy Dickenson, Santa Fe, New Mexico Harry Drake, Minneapolis, MinnMilton Esterow, NYCAgnes Gund, NYCEikoh Hosoe, TokyoHuntington Bank, Columbus, OhioBill Jacklin, Newport, R.I.Kopperman & Wolf, ClevelandPeter Lewis, NYC, Miami and ClevelandGilbert Lloyd, LondonHerbert Locher, Shanghai & Köln McKinsey & Company, ClevelandOhio Savings, Cleveland

Francine & Benson Piloff, Cleveland & Raleigh, N. CarolinaHans-Georg & Bernadette Pospischil, Frankfurt,Progressive Corp., Cleveland, Ohio and Albany, NYJames Rosenquist, NYCDon Sanders, Houston, TexasShearman & Sterling, Frankfurt, GermanyLothar Schirmer, MunichStandard Oil Corp., ClevelandTarget Corporation, Minneapolis, MinnesotaJürgen Tesch, Berlin and MunichMichael Trapp, Frankfurt

monographs

Penope’s Hungry Eyes; Portraits of Photographers Schirmer-Mosel Verlag, Munich, 2011,188 pages,105 photographs, in English and GermanAbe Frajndlich Portraits, Prestel Publishing, Munich, London, New York, 2000, 83 photos Eros Eterna, Unschau Braus, Heideberg, Germany, 1999, 115 photosMasters of Light, Catalog to exhibition at Museum Ludwig, 1990, 54 photos Lives I’ve Never Lived: A Portrait of Minor White, ARC Press, Cleveland, Ohio, 1983, 83 photographsCleveland Infra Red, Publix Imprints, Cleveland, Ohio, 1981, 83 photosFigments, ARC Press, Boston, 1975, 58 photos

portfolios

500 CAPP, Collaboration with David Ireland, John Ashberry, and Gunner Kaldewey, Kaldewey Press, Edition 46, 1995 Glove, Collaboration with painter, Chris Pekoc, 12 photographs, ARC Press, Edition 50, 1982

Homage to Yukio Mishima, Introduction by Eikoh Hosoe, 12 photographs, ARC Press, Edition 35, 1980

Entropic Freeze, Introductory quote from Nathaniel West’s Miss Lonelyhearts, ARC Press, Edition 35, 1980

Cleveland Infra Red, Introduction by Peter Lewis, 12 photographs, ARC Press, Edition of 60, 1980

Lives I’ve Never Lived: A Portrait of Minor White, Intro by Douglas Neil Prudden, 12 photos, Cleveland, Ohio, Edition 50, 1979

Private Figments, Intro by D. N. Prudden,12 photos, Boston, Mass., edition of 25, 1975

WorKshops and teaching

Abe Frajndlich has lectured and taught photography workshops in the U.S., Germany and Italy on Portraiture, The City, and The Nude, and the Self-Portrait for a number of years.

Abe Frajndlich30 East 20th St. 6th Floor

NYC, NY 10003212 995 8648

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