Frederick Sommer

♂ *1905-1999 / United States / Italy

Works

Solo exhibitions

Visual Affinities

In Collaboration with Bruce Silverstein

Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York (US)
24 Oct 2019 – 27 Nov 2019
Glue Drawings

Bruce Silverstein, New York (US)
11 Jun 2015 – 31 Jul 2015
WORKS FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta (US)
9 May 2014 – 3 Jul 2014
Choice and chance structure art and nature

Bruce Silverstein 20, New York (US)
24 Feb 2011 – 9 Apr 2011
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Bruce Silverstein, New York (US)
4 Feb 2010 – 20 Mar 2010
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Philadelphia Museum Art, Philadelphia (US)
3 Oct 2009 – 3 Jan 2010
Photography, Drawing & Collage

Faggionato Fine Art, London (GB)
8 Jun 2006 – 25 Aug 2006
Photographs and Drawings, 1938 - 1950

Faggionato Fine Art, New York (US)
4 Nov 2005 – 21 Jan 2006
At 100

Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York (US)
1 Sep 2005 – 1 Oct 2005
A Centennial Tribute

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
10 May 2005 – 4 Sep 2005
Illusions & Distortions

V&A Victoria & Albert Museum, London (GB)
20 Jan 2005 – 3 Apr 2005

Group

CALLAHAN, GOWIN and SOMMER

Etherton Gallery, Tucson (US)
15 Apr 2026 – 19 Sep 2026

with Harry Callahan, Emmet Gowin
Photographer as Sculptor, Sculptor as Photographer

Bruce Silverstein, New York (US)
10 Apr 2025 – 7 Jun 2025

with Bernd & Hilla Becher, Karl Blossfeldt, Constantin Brancusi, Bill Brandt, Imogen Cunningham, Andre Kertesz, Man Ray , Barbara Morgan, Aaron Siskind, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston
FOTOGAGA. Max Ernst and Photography

A Visit from the Würth Collection

Museum für Fotografie, Berlin (DE)
18 Oct 2024 – 27 Apr 2025

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Eugene Atget, Hans Bellmer, Aenne Biermann, Karl Blossfeldt, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Josef Breitenbach, Josef Breitenbach, Claude Cahun, Denise Colomb, Alfred Ehrhardt …
More Avant-Garde

Gitterman Gallery, New York (US)
7 Sep 2024 – 2 Nov 2024

with Laure Albin-Guillot, Pierre Boucher, Èmeric Feher, Francois Kollar, Helmar Lerski, Daniel Masclet, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Jean Moral, Jean Painleve, Roger Parry, Jaroslav Roessler, Raoul Ubac
REDUX

Selections from The Photography Show Presented by AIPAD

Etherton Gallery, Tucson (US)
25 Jun 2024 – 21 Sep 2024

with David Emitt Adams, Alanna Airitam, Roger Ballen, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Emmet Gowin, Kati Horna, Graciela Iturbide, Clarence John Laughlin, O. Winston Link, Danny Lyon …
Visions from America

Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940–2001

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
26 Jun 2022 – 22 Sep 2022

with Vito Acconci, Robert Adams, Merry Alpern, William Anastasi, Janine Antoni, Diane Arbus, David Armstrong, Richard Avedon, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Matthew Barney, Tina Barney …
Photography and the Surreal Imagination

The Menil Collection, Houston (US)
5 Feb 2020 – 14 Jun 2020

with Laure Albin-Guillot, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Hans Bellmer, Brassai, Claude Cahun, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Joseph Cornell, Roy DeCarava, Jay DeFeo, Max Ernst …
Beyond the World We Know: Abstraction in Photography

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena (US)
22 Nov 2019 – 20 Apr 2020

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Walter Chappell, Mati Maldre, Barbara Morgan, Arthur Siegel, Aaron Siskind, Edmund Teske, Edward Weston, Brett Weston, Minor White
Photographs from the Paul Sack Collection

Deborah Bell Photographs, New York (US)
18 Sep 2019 – 2 Nov 2019

with Eugene Atget, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Emmet Gowin, Kenneth Josephson, Daido Moriyama, Joel Peter Witkin
Drawing the Line

Bruce Silverstein, New York (US)
11 Jul 2019 – 30 Aug 2019

with Harry Callahan, Germaine Krull, Man Ray , Shinichi Maruyama, Barbara Morgan, Sigmar Polke, Aaron Siskind, Keith Smith, Brea Souders, Penelope Umbrico, Edward Weston, Joel Peter Witkin …
Bard x HGG

7 of Shore's recent graduates with photographs by historic 20th century artists

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
20 Jun 2019 – 29 Aug 2019

with Dave Heath, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Lisette Model, Stephen Shore, Josef Sudek, Minor White
With the Help of Friends

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth (US)
2 Feb 2019 – 2 Jun 2019

with Michael Berman, Margaret Bourke-White, Mitch Epstein, Paolo Fusco, David H. Gibson, Jane Hammond, Kenneth Josephson, Laura Letinsky, Laura McPhee, Marcia Resnick, Nancy Rexroth, Larry Sultan …
Binaire / Non-Binaire

GESTE Paris 2018

GESTE Paris, Paris (FR)
6 Nov 2018 – 1 Dec 2018

with Constantin Brancusi, CJ Heyliger, Pierre Molinier, Julian Simmons, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hannibal Volkoff, Ernest Wu
Masters of 20th Century American Photography

Etherton Gallery, Tucson (US)
9 Jun 2018 – 31 Aug 2018

with Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Emmet Gowin, W. Eugene Smith, Joel Peter Witkin
Modern Spirit

Important Vintage Photographs from a Private Collection

Laurence Miller Gallery, New York (US)
14 Sep 2017 – 28 Oct 2017

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Hannes Beckmann, Bill Brandt, Harry Callahan, Will Connell, Josef Ehm, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Adam Fuss, Consuelo Kanaga …
Monochrome

Bruce Silverstein, New York (US)
20 Jan 2017 – 4 Mar 2017

with Alfred Leslie, Aaron Siskind
Songs and the Sky

An exhibition of art and music

Bruce Silverstein, New York (US)
28 Apr 2016 – 18 Jun 2016

with Lisette Model, Barbara Morgan, Aaron Siskind, Alfred Stieglitz
In Focus: The Animal

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
26 May 2015 – 18 Oct 2015

with Pieter Hugo, William Henry Jackson, Taryn Simon, Alfred Stieglitz
The Pure Products of America Go Crazy

CCP Center Creative Photo, Tucson (US)
20 Jun 2015 – 13 Sep 2015

with Ansel Adams, Lucas Blalock, Harry Callahan, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Jan Groover, Owen Kydd, John Lehr, Paul Outerbridge, Charles Jr. Sheeler
Convergences

Selected Photographs from the Permanent Collection

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
8 Jul 2014 – 19 Oct 2014

with Diane Arbus, Margaret Bourke-White, Mariana Cook, Ralston Crawford, Imogen Cunningham, XING Danwen, Walker Evans, Kota Ezawa, Barry Frydlender, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Gertrude Kaesebier, Sandra Kantanen …
Shifting Sands

The Beach and the Desert in 20th-Century Photographs

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford (US)
17 Jul 2013 – 13 Oct 2013

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Edward S. Curtis, Edward Weston
The Unphotographable

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (US)
1 Jan 2013 – 23 Mar 2013

with Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Walead Beshty, Mel Bochner, Sophie Calle, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Liz Deschenes, Kota Ezawa, Adam Fuss, Paul Graham, Idris Khan …
Howard Greenberg - Collection

PHOTO ELYSEE, Lausanne (CH)
21 Sep 2012 – 6 Jan 2013

with Berenice Abbott, Robert Adams, Eddie Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Arthur Ann Segan, Diane Arbus, Lillian Bassman, Werner Bischof, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Claude Cahun, Harry Callahan …
1955 A group show

Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto (CA)
21 Jan 2012 – 18 Feb 2012

with Harold E. Edgerton, Elliott Erwitt, Dave Heath, Andre Kertesz, O. Winston Link, Angus McBean, Larry Morris, W. Eugene Smith, Dennis Stock, Charles Swedlund, Gabor Szilasi, George S. Zimbel
Creative Continuum: The History of the Center for Creative Photography

CCP Center Creative Photo, Tucson (US)
20 Aug 2011 – 17 Nov 2011

with Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Edward Weston
Surreal/Subjective - Photographic Gifts from Alumni

Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca (US)
9 Apr 2011 – 9 Jun 2011

with Meghan Boody, Gregory Crewdson, Emmet Gowin, Ana Mendieta
DISCOVERIES

Bruce Silverstein, New York (US)
8 Jul 2010 – 6 Aug 2010

with Vito Acconci, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Leonard Freed, Gertrude Kaesebier, Dorothea Lange, Marvin E. Newman, Edward Weston
Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection

Metropolitan Museum 5th Ave, New York (US)
15 Sep 2009 – 16 May 2010

with Anna Atkins, Marco Breuer, Andrew Bush, Miles Coolidge, Tim Davis, Robert Demachy, Walker Evans, Roger Fenton, Lee Friedlander, Tom Friedman, Adam Fuss, Ann Hamilton …
La photographie n’est pas l’art,

collection Sylvio Perlstein

MAMCS Strasbourg, Strasbourg (FR)
5 Feb 2010 – 24 Apr 2010

with James Abbe, Berenice Abbott, Adel Abdessemed, Vito Acconci, Eugene Atget, Robert Barry, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Bill Beckley, Hannes Beckmann, Vanessa Beecroft, Hans Bellmer, Ilse Bing …
Making a Photograph

Iconic Images and Their Orgins

CCP Center Creative Photo, Tucson (US)
20 Oct 2007 – 26 Jan 2008

with Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Frank Gohlke, Robert Heinecken, Mark Klett, Wright Morris, Hans Namuth, Jim Pomeroy …
The Terrain of Seeing

Etherton Gallery, Tucson (US)
6 Sep 2005 – 5 Nov 2005

with Michael Berman, Mark Klett
Visionary Anatomies

National Academy of Sciences, Washington (US)
15 Jan 2005 – 20 May 2005

with Stefanie Buerkle, Katherine du Tiel, Connie Imboden, Predrag Pajdic, Mike + Doug Starn
Photographers of Genius

Celebrating 20 years of collecting

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
16 Mar 2004 – 25 Jul 2004

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Anna Atkins, Hippolyte Bayard, Henry P. Bosse, Brassai, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson, Thomas Eakins, Walker Evans …
In the Center of Things: A Tribute to Harold Jones

CCP Center Creative Photo, Tucson (US)
3 Apr 2004 – 18 Jul 2004

with Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Paul Caponigro, Mark Cohen, Linda Connor, Carol Flax, Robert Frank, Judith Golden, Emmet Gowin, Robert Heinecken, Eikoh Hosoe, Barbara Kasten …
Abstraction in Photography

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
2 May 1951 – 4 Jul 1951

with Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Allen Arbus, Ferenc Berko, Erwin Blumenfeld, Mathew B. Brady, Josef Breitenbach, Alexey Brodovitch, Francis Bruguire, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alvin Langdon Coburn …
New Photographers

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
18 Jun 1946 – 15 Sep 1946

with Alfredo Boulton, Harry Callahan, Stanley T. Clough, Howard Dearstyne, Max Dupain, Max Ernst, Godfrey B. Frankel, Rosalie Gwathmey, Gyoergy Kepes, Arthur Leipzig, Joe Munroe, Arnold Newman …

Events

THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

presented by AIPAD 2026

AIPAD, New York (US)
23 Apr 2026 – 26 Apr 2026

with Albarran Cabrera, Ilse Bing, Karl Blossfeldt, Bill Brandt, Susan Burnstine, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Adger Cowans, F. Holland Day, Louis Draper, Frantisek Drtikol, Jürgen Escher …
THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

presented by AIPAD 2026

Bruce Silverstein, New York (US)
23 Apr 2026 – 26 Apr 2026

with Ilse Bing, Karl Blossfeldt, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, F. Holland Day, Frantisek Drtikol, Jürgen Escher, Florence Henri, Lotte Jacobi, Andre Kertesz, Germaine Krull, Dorothea Lange …
THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

presented by AIPAD 2025

AIPAD, New York (US)
24 Apr 2025 – 27 Apr 2025

with Slim Aarons, Stanko Abadzic, Berenice Abbott, Oliver Abraham, Robert Adams, Ansel Adams, Laure Albin-Guillot, Mariette Pathy Allen, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Maria Antelman, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus …
Fine Art & Photographs

Doyle Auctions, New York (US)
9 Dec 2023 – 11 Dec 2023

with Richard Avedon, Constantin Brancusi, Nick Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Adam Fuss, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vik Muniz, Irving Penn, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Alfred Stieglitz, Hiroshi Sugimoto …
photo la 2019

photo l.a., Santa Monica (US)
1 Feb 2019 – 3 Feb 2019

with Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Keiichi Asano, Sid Avery, Roger Ballen, Lewis Baltz, Cara Barer, Jeffrey Becom, Valerie Belin, Ruth Bernhard, Tom Blachford …
Classic Photographs Los Angeles 2018

Classic Photographs L.A., Santa Monica (US)
2 Feb 2018 – 4 Feb 2018

with Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Eugene Atget, Edouard Boubat, Horace Bristol, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Cornell Capa, Brigitte Carnochan, Carl Corey, Imogen Cunningham …
photo l.a. 2007

photo l.a., Los Angeles (US)
18 Jan 2007 – 21 Jan 2007

with Mario A., Thomas Allen, Lillian Bassman, Harry Callahan, Michael Eastman, Lalla Essaydi, Frank Horvat, Pieter Hugo, Loretta Lux, Richard Misrach, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Loan Nguyen …