Looking for Marilyn &Elvis
Abe Frajndlich
Looking for Marilyn &Elvis
Abe Frajndlich
I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, “There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.” Marilyn Monroe When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times. Elvis Presley
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A be Fr a jnd lich
Akron Museum of Art, Akron, Ohio, 1982
Photographic Portraits of Artists since 1945, curated
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Beverly Hills, Cal., 1976
Huntington Bank, Columbus, Ohio
Born May 28, 1946, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany
Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, 1981
by Michael Kohler, Museum Bad Arolsen, 1999,
MIT, Cambridge, Mass., Two-person exhibit, 1976
Bill Jacklin, New York City and Newport
12 photographs, ARC Press, Edition of 60, 1980
Resides in New York City, NY
The Photography Place, Philadelphia, Penn., 1979
Stadtmuseum Hofheim am Taunus, March 1999-May
Celebrations, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., 1974
Kopperman & Wolf, Cleveland
Lives I’ve Never Lived: A Portrait of Minor White,
Image Co-Op, Montpelier, Vermont, 1978
2000 eight portraits of Cindy Sherman, four portraits
Children: 1843-1973, Exchange National
Peter Lewis, New York City, Aspen and Cleveland
Intro by Douglas Neil Prudden, 12 photos, Cleveland,
SohoPhoto Gallery, New York, N.Y., 1977
of Gilbert & George
Bank, Chicago, 1973
Gilbert Lloyd, London
Ohio, Edition 50, 1979
education
Musee Nicephore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saone,
Master Photographs from the Permanent Collection,
Herbert Locher, Cologne, Germany
Private Figments, Intro by D. N. Prudden,
BA, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois,
France, 1977
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996, one photograph,
McKinsey & Company, Cleveland
12 photos, Boston, Mass., edition of 25, 1975.
English Literature, 1968
Gallery of Photographic Arts, North Olmsted,
inclusive catalogue, 15 photographs
Museum collections
Ohio Savings, Cleveland
MA, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois,
Ohio, 1976
Leica Gallery, Two Person with Ralph Gibson 1996
Akron Museum of Art, Akron, Ohio
Kurt Olden, NYC
English Literature, 1970
United States Senate, Washington, D.C., 1974
Thinking Print, Books to Billboards, 1980-95,
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France
Francine & Benson Piloff, Cleveland and Raleigh,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1996, Large
Butler Institute American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
N. Carolina
Three-year residency with Minor White, Chairman of
group show, 9 photos as part of a Portfolio 500
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, O.
Hans-Georg & Bernadette Pospischil, Frankfurt
Arlington Hts., Mass., 1970-71, 1975-76
selected g roup e xhibitions
Capp St. with David Ireland, text by John Ashberry
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, O.
Progressive Corp., Cleveland, Ohio and Albany, NY
Study and work with Nathan Lyons, Visual Studies
Fascination with the Body, in focus gallery, with
The Essential Art: 140 Years of American
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
James Rosenquist, New York City
Workshop, Rochester, New York, 1974-75
Alvin Booth, 2007, 14 photographs
Photography from the Ansel Adams and Virginia Adams
Jewish Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Don Sanders, Houston, Texas
Eyes of Time, Galerie Tammen, Berlin,
Collection, University of Arizona, Center for Creative
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Shearman & Sterling, Frankfurt
35 photographs, 2006
Photography traveling show, 1992, one photograph
M.I.T. Cambridge, Mass.
Lothar Schirmer, Munich
present position
Gifts to the Nation, National Portrait Galllery, Wash.
Les Conserves de Nicephore, exhibition and catalog of
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Target Corporation, Minneapolis, Minn.
Freelance art, magazine and commercial photographer.
D.C., 2006, four photos
permanent collection of Musee Nicephore Niepce,
Musee Nicephore Niepce, International Museum of
Jürgen Tesch, Munich and Berlin
Has worked for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
Esthetic of the Erotic IV, Leipzig Museum of
Chalon-sur-Saone, France, 10 photographs, 1992
Photography, Chalon-sur-Saone, France
Garner Tullis, New York City
Life, ArtNews, London Sunday Times,
Photography, 2005
May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio,
Museum of Photog. Arts, San Diego,
London Observer, N.Y. Times Magazine and many
Fifteen Years, Fifteen Photographers, infocus gallery,
1992, 1989, 1988, 1986, 1982, 1981, 1979, 1977,
National Portrait Gallery, Wash., D.C.
others in the U.S. and Europe.
Cologne, 2005
1974, 1973
New Mexico Museum Fine Arts, SantaFe, NM
monog r a phs
Currently preparing a book project called Looking
Photography from Private Collections, Fotoforum
Inside Self someone else, Dayton Art Institute, with
George Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
Abe Frajndlich Portraits, Prestel Munich, London,
at Photographers
Intern., Frankfurt, 2005
Eleanor Antin, Robert Arneson, Luis Azaceta, Jay
Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, N.J.
New York, 2000, 83 photographs
Exposed, Nudes of the 20th Century, Heilbronn
Bolotin, Lynn Hershman, William Wiley, 1984
John and Mabel Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida
Eros Eterna, Unschau Braus, Heideberg, Germany, 1999, 115 photos
MIT Department of Photography (1964-1976),
Museum, with Weston, Brandt, Man Ray, Gibson,
PhotoCollect, New York City, Two Person with Minor
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, Cal.
selected solo e xhibitions
2004, two photographs
White, 1983
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
Masters of Light, Catalog to exhibition, Museum
Jewish Museum, Frankfurt, Portraits,
Nudes, infocus gallery, Cologne, 2004,
University of Florida Art Department Gallery,
University of Arizona, Tempe, Center of
Ludwig,1990, 54 photos Lives I’ve Never Lived: A Portrait of Minor White,
101 Photos, 1970-2003
two photographs
Gainesville, Florida, Two-person exhibit with
Creative Photography
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown,
Scapes: City & Land, Butler Institute of American Art,
Chris Pekoc, 1982
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Arc Press, Cleveland, Ohio, 1983, 83 photographs
Ohio, 2002
Trumbull, with Simona Frajndlich, 51 photographs
Second Sight -Infra Red Survey, Carpenter Center,
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Cleveland Infra Red, Publix Imprints, Cleveland, Ohio,
Reygers Gallery, Munich, 2002, 2001
Before, During and After 9/11, Dead Horse Gallery,
Harvard University, 1981, Show traveled in U.S. and
Whitney Museum of Art, NYC
1981, 83 photographs
GSI Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, 2000
Lakewood, Ohio, 2002, 20 photographs
Europe through 1984
Figments, Self-published, Boston, 1975,
FotoForum International, Frankfurt, 1999
Portrait of the Art World, A Century of ARTnews
New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio,
59 photographs
in focus gallery am Dom, Cologne, 1998
Photographs, starting at the New York Historical
Three-person exhibit, 1981
selected corpor ate &
Museum Molkau, Leipzig, Germany, 1998
Society, NYC, and travelling to four venues through
Personae, Mather Gallery, Case Western Reserve Univ.,
private collections
Fotogalerie Kulturamt Friedrichshain, Berlin,
2004, three photographs
Cleveland, Ohio, 1980
Bank One, Chicago, Illinois
portfolios
Germany 1997
Princeton Art Museum, Peter Bunnell Exhibition, 2002,
Summer Show, Daniel Wolf, New York, N.Y., 1980
Tom & Katherine Ball, Cleveland and Venice
500 CAPP, Collaboration with David Ireland, John
FotoForum Frankfurt, Germany, 1997
two photographs
The Automobile Image, MIT, Cambridge, Ma., 1980
Baker & Hostetler, Cleveland
Ashberry, and Gunner Kaldewey, Kaldewey Press,
Native Indian Museums -Travelling Show 1995-96
Art Bridge: New York-Cologne-New York, Edward
Fotogalerij Paule Pia, Antwerp, Belgium, Two-person
Peter Bunnell, Princeton, N.J.
Edition 46, 1995
Leica Gallery, New York City, 1994
Carter Gallery, NYC, 2001
exhibit with Andre Kertesz, 1978
BP Corporation., Cleveland
Glove, Collaboration with painter, Chris Pekoc, 12
Thread Waxing Space, N.Y.C., 1993
World Wildlife Fund Portfolio Exhibition, Der Hague,
Focus Gallery, San Francisco, Two-person exhibit, 1978
AGA Burdox, Stockholm, Sweden
photographs, ARC Press, Edition 50, 1982
University of Delaware Museum of Art, 1993
Helsinki, Frankfurt, Istanbul, 2000/2001, with 25 other
New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio,
Simon Crocker, London and Los Angeles
Homage to Yukio Mishima, Introduction by Eikoh
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1990
international photographers
Two-person exhibit, 1977
Nancy Dickenson, Santa Fe, NM
Hosoe, 12 photographs, ARC Press, Edition 35, 1980
Dayton Art Institute, Experiencenter Gallery, Dayton,
Documentation/Manipulation in 20th Century
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass., 1976
Harry Drake, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Entropic Freeze, Introductory quote from Nathaniel
Ohio, 1983
Photography, curated by David Ebitz, Ringling
Gallery of Photographic Arts, North Olmsted, Ohio,
Milton Esterow, New York City
West’s Miss Lonelyhearts, ARC Press, 12 photos,
Zenith Gallery, Pittsburgh, Penn., 1983
Museum, Sarasota, Fla., 1999, 20 photographs.
Two-person exhibit with Ansel Adams, 1977
Eikoh Hosoe, Tokyo
Edition 35, 1980
Cleveland Infra Red, Introduction by Peter Lewis,
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