Abe Frajndlich

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Abe Frajndlich (born May 28, 1946 in Zeilsheim , district of Frankfurt am Main , as Abraham Samuel Frajndlich ) is an American photographer who lives and works in New York City . He became internationally known, especially as a celebrity portraitist, among others of important photographer colleagues. In 2003, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described him as defining the style of the newspaper with the description that he had “ not insignificantly shaped the imagery of this newspaper's magazine for almost a decade and a half ” .

Life and work

Born in a displaced persons camp in Frankfurt- Zeilsheim and classified as a stateless person , Frajndlich moved frequently as a child: from Frankfurt to Tel Aviv and back to Frankfurt, then to Paris and finally to the USA via Brazil. He has been based in New York City since 1983. He trained as a photographer from 1970 to 1976 at Minor White , Department of Photography in Arlington Heights , Massachusetts and at Nathan Lyons , Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester , New York.

As a photographer and reporter, Frajndlich u. a. for the magazine of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Life , the Spiegel , the London Observer and the New York Times Magazine. In addition to the journalistic commissioned work, he achieved international attention , especially in the fields of portrait and nude photography . As a renowned art photographer, he led several workshops (1997, 1999) for young photographers at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt.

The solo exhibition Portraits in the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt am Main in August 2003 showed the work of more than thirty years in a retrospective in around one hundred photos. His book Penelope's Hungry Look. Portraits by photographers have been reviewed in numerous national media.

In his 2020 photo book New York City. Just like I pictured it , Frajndlich has been portraying the city of New York and its residents in black and white since the mid-1980s. His photos show few sights, many random street scenes that were designed. His main topics include architecture as a graphic arrangement, portraits of freaks and funny moments of the city dwellers of New York.

Book works

  • Penelope's hungry look: Portraits by Photographen , Schirmer and Mosel, Munich 2011, 188 pages, ISBN 978-3-8296-0527-4
  • Portraits , Prestel Verlag, Munich; London; New York 2000, 95 pp., ISBN 3-7913-2406-3
  • Jordan Mejias America: a portrait in portraits / with photographs by Abe Frajndlich , Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / MAin 2000, 317 pages, ISBN 3-518-39650-1
  • Eros eterna , Umschau and Braus, Heidelberg 1999, 128 pages, ISBN 3-8295-6808-8
  • New York City. Just like I pictured it , Munich 2020, 144 pages, ISBN 978-3-7774-3468-1

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2012 NordLightFestival Retrospective Exhibition, Kristiansund, Norway
  • 2009 Nathalia Laue | Gallery & Edition, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2008 A Portrait of Minor White , Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
  • 2007 Fascination Body, in focus gallery, Cologne (together with Alvin Booth )
  • 2003 portraits , Jewish Museum Frankfurt
  • 2002 Butler Institute of American Art , Youngstown, Ohio, USA
  • 2000 GSI Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
  • 1999 Photography Forum international, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1998 in focus gallery, Cologne
  • 1997 Photo gallery Kulturamt Friedrichshain, Berlin
  • 1994 Leica Gallery , New York City
  • 1993 University of Delaware Museum of Art
  • 1990 Museum Ludwig , Cologne

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2006 Photography Forum Frankfurt: Winter Wonderland
  • 2002 Camera and Photo Museum Leipzig  : The Aesthetics of Lust III. various positions in contemporary erotic photography, exhibition from September 28, 2002 to January 19, 2003
  • 2019: HOLLYWOOD ICONS - Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation. Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Alfred Hitchcock & Co. in the Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photographer Abe Frajndlich photographs his colleagues. (No longer available online.) In: RP ONLINE. Rheinische Post Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, archived from the original on January 17, 2012 ; accessed on September 30, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Abe Frajndlich - The Photographer-Photographer , Die Zeit from November 9, 2011, photo series 1–7
  3. ↑ a b c Exhibition review by Freddy Langer in the FAZ from August 8, 2003: Abe Frajndlich Verborgene Arbeiter
  4. ↑ Success abroad - Stephan Burgdorff on Germans in America / Photos by Abe Frajndlich
  5. ↑ E.g. portrait of Saul Bellow at the Signum photo gallery, Kronberg
  6. ↑ a b Camera and Photo Museum Leipzig: The Aesthetics of Lust III.
  7. ^ Royal Photographic Society of October 11, 2010 ( Memento of October 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Pearl divers on Penelope's hungry gaze
  9. ↑ Portraits of the artists: Abe Frajndlich turns his lens on the greats of photography Holly Williams in The Independent of December 3, 2011
  10. ↑ Stefan Fischer: The great stage show. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Press release from the Cologne gallery focus on Fascination Body - Alvin Booth + Abe Frajndlich from October 19, 2007 ( Memento from November 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Documentation on photography-now
personal data
SURNAME Really, Abe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frajndlich, Abraham Samuel (official name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer and photojournalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main