Abe Frajndlich, 1986 Red Grooms & Sculpture Vintage C-Print Photograph Abe Frajndlich Colo Photo, 1986

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Abe Frajndlich (German American, b. 1946) Portrait of Red Grooms 1986 Los Angeles Hand signed, titled, and dated verso Abe … Read more Abe Frajndlich (German American, b. 1946) Portrait of Red Grooms 1986 Los Angeles Hand signed, titled, and dated verso Abe (Abraham Samuel) Frajndlich was born in a displaced persons camp in Frankfurt, Germany. At ten years of age Abe was a global child, speaking German, Yiddish, French, Portuguese, and soon English; he loved the adventures of Roy Rogers and other Western heroes. He received his first camera when he was twelve. Light and literature continued to shape Frajndlich’s life. During his youth, Frajndlich moved several times, finally settling in the United States; Frajndlich received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, with a master’s degree on James Joyce’s Ulysses. In 1970 he turned to photography and had a three year residency with Minor White, the celebrated photographer who at the time was chairman of the Department of Photography at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and subsequently pursued further studies in photography with Nathan Lyons at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. He lived in New York City for thirty-five years, and now resides in Cleveland, Ohio. His images have been exhibited extensively in the US and Europe, and his photographs are included in numerous museum collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City), Musée Nicéphore Niépce (Chalon-sur-Saône, France), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), Jewish Museum (Frankfurt) and the National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C). Since 1985 Frajndlich worked for major magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, LIFE, The London Observer, Vanity Fair and the FAZ Magazin. An innovative freelance photographer best known for his celebrity portraits, Frajndlich's myriad themes and obsessions include portraiture of the famous and the anonymous, the erotic and the fantastic. He has taken portraits of Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol at a Richard Avedon opening, Dennis Hopper, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred Eisenstadt, Ilse Bing and Andre Kertesz, Christo, Jack Lemmon, Miles Davis, Horst, David Hockney, Yoko Ono, Gerhard Richter and Cindy Sherman, along with the breathtaking shots of landscapes and architectural structures. He has worked both in silver gelatin prints and in c- mprint color prints. He has contributed work to numerous publications including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, New York Times Magazine, and the London Observer. his work has been widely exhibited in both Europe and the United States. Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of Provincetown's Sun Gallery) when he was starting out as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Provincetown and was studying with Hans Hofmann. Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee during the middle of the Great Depression. Red Grooms came of age in the shadow of the Abstract Expressionists. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, then at Nashville's Peabody College. In 1956, Grooms moved to New York City, to enroll at the New School for Social Research. A year later, Grooms attended a summer session at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Grooms and painter Jay Milder opened the City Gallery in Grooms' second-floor loft in the Flatiron District. When Phoenix refused to show Claes Oldenburg, Grooms and Milder dropped out of Phoenix and City Gallery presented Oldenberg's first New York exhibition, as well as that of Jim Dine. Other artists who showed at City Gallery include Stephen Durkee, Mimi Gross (daughter of Chaim Gross and Red Grooms wife), Bob Thompson, Lester Johnson, and Alex Katz. Grooms never developed the detached stance of such Pop Art practitioners as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein or James Rosenquist. Instead he painted his own life, and became, literally, an actor on the stage of life -- in this case the art-as-life "happenings" of the downtown New York scene. Inspired by George Méliès's 1902 film A Trip to the Moon. See less