fotografering Abe Frajndlich the nude: eros and form

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1 Aktfotografering med Abe Frajndlich september Frajndlich er kjent for å gjøre helt spesielle akt fotografier. Form og erotikk er stikkordet. Men han har også fotografert filmstjerner, regissører, rock n roll legender, artister og andre kreative personligheter. På denne workshopen skal vi utforske den erotiske dimensjonen av et aktfotografi. Vi skal vise eksmpler og sammenlikne dette med fotografier som kun har form som mål i et aktfotografi. Der det er lidenskap er det muligheter til å få de beste resultater og Abe Frajndlich vil utfordre komunikasjonen mellom fotograf og modell. the nude: eros and form As humans we have been fascinated by the mysteries of our body s form, since the beginning. Images like the Venus of Willendorf and the Discobolus of Praxiteles have spoken to us and we have returned to rendering the body in almost every creative medium over time. Since the invention of the camera, the body as subject, has continued to dominate our imagination and our practice. Of course artists of the twentieth century, and now the twenty-first, have been radically changing our perspectives and interpretations of the human body and we will also look at some of these powerful antecedents in this workshop. In this workshop I would like us to explore the nude, both female and male, as a subject of inquiry not only as form in an environment, but in a more complex mode, as an impetus of our sexual drive and curiosity. The most compelling image can only be made from an inner drive and desire, and it is this exploration of the root sources of our need to make these images that we will individually explore in this five day workshop, as we make photographs and discuss the process and the results, every day. I have personally been exploring the nude since the first moment I picked up a camera seriously in 1970, and continue to this day. I will share some of my work and insights with the students, and hope to learn as much from them and their personal explorations. The best teaching, I have found, is also a learning, and I look forward to opening my doors of perception in the clear Nordic Light of Kristiansund, Norway in early September. Abe Frajndlich Mange norske kunstnere har blitt inspirert av lyset og fargene fra havet og landskapet i og rundt Kristiansund. Nordic Light vil gjennom året tilby fotografisk påfyll i form av mange spennende workshops. September WORKSHOP i akt fotografering

2 Praktisk informasjon Workshopen koster 6500,- som inkluderer modeller, studio, lys og assistenter, EPSON-printer, blekk og papir. Du må selv ta med digitalt kamera, minnepinne og bærbar datamaskin med enkel bilderedigering. Overnatting og bespisning er ikke inkludert i prisen. Vi vil komme tilbake med tilbud om dette senere. Program Torsdag 2. september Kl Velkommen, presentasjon Kl Middag Fredag 3. september Lørdag 4. september Søndag 5. september Mandag 6. september Kl Avslutning Kl Båt til piren. Dette programmet kan forandres til en hver tid.

3 Litt om workshopen: Gjennomgang av deltakernes medbrakte fotorafier. Husk å ta med prints (ikke digitalt) legges vekt på hvordan men møter og jobber med modellene. Gjennom workshopen vil vi undersøke den erotiske dimensjonen av det fotografiske nakne og vise eksempler. I kontrast til dette arbeide skal vi øve oss i å se kun form. Der det er lidenskap det er mulighet for å gjøre de beste opptaket, og Abe vil oppfordre mye kommunikasjon mellom fotografene og modellene. Vi vil gjøre utvelgelser i fellesskap og printe ut de beste fotografiene. Epson er hovedsponsor for Nordic Light. Det betyr at det vil være en printer tilgjengelig for dere. Om Abe Frajndlich Født I 1946 i Tyskland og flyttet som 10-åring til USA. I dag bor og arbeider han I New York City.. Etter å ha tatt eksamen i engelsk litteratur ved Northwestern University i Evanton, Illinois, meldte han seg på et seminar med Minor White og som skulle vise seg å forandre hans liv totalt. Han flyttet til Boston og begynte å studerte hos Minor White. De fikk et sterkt vennskap som resulterte i Abes bok Lives I Never Lived, en serie portetter av Minor White. Disse bildene og andre bilder av Whites fotografvenner ble forløperen til serien Looking at Photographs som begynte som et deltids prosjekt. Den blomstret i en fulltidsjobb med støtte fra Eastman Kodak Company. Han er også kjent for å fotografere filmstjerner, regissører, rock n roll legender, artister og andre creative personligheter. Hans bruker mye symboler i fotografiene sine, humoristisk og uvented som da han fikk skuespiller Jack Lemon til å holde to sitoner der hvor øynene skulle ha vært. Eller der han får popkunstner Roy Lichtenstein til å bruke en malerkost til bart. Frajdlich ber sine modeller om å presentere seg på en personlig måte, oppmuntrer dem til å gi betrakteren en mulighet til et glimt av kompleksiteten i karakterene. Dette resulterer i et portrett som er intimt selv med et svært offentlig liv disse modellen har. Hans fotografier har bltt publisert I mange forskjellige fora: monografier så vel som i Life, New York Time Magazine, London Sunday Times, ArtNews, American Photographer, Frankfurter Allgemeine, mm. Ved siden av portrettene er han en kjent aktfotograf. Det er det Abe skal lære oss under denne workshopen. Velkommen til workshop. For mer informasjon: nle@nle.no eller ring til Anne Lise Flavik:

4 Born May 28, 1946, Frankfurt a. Main resides in New York City, NY Education BA, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, English Literature, 1968 MA, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, English Lit., 1970 Three-year residency with Minor White, Chairman of MIT Department of Photography ( ), Arlington Hts., Mass., , Study and work with Nathan Lyons, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, Present position Freelance art, maga z ine and commercial photographer. Has worked for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Life, Art News, London Sunday Times, London Observer, N.Y. Times Magazine and many others in the U.S. and Europe. Cur rently preparing a book project called Penelope s Hungry Eyes: Portraits of the Master Photographers Select ed soloexhibitions Galerie Laue, Frankfurt, 2009 Jewish Museum, Frankfurt, Portraits, 101 Photos, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 2002 Reygers Galller y, Munich, 2002, 2001 GSI Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, 2000 Foto Forum International, Frankfurt, 1999 In focus gal lery am Dom, Cologne, 1998 Museum Molkau, Leipzig, Germany, 1998 Fotogalerie Kulturamt Fr edrichshain, Berl in, Germany, 1997 Foto Forum Frankfurt, Germany, 1997 Native Indian Museums-Travelling Show Leica Galler y, New York City, 1994 Thread Waxing Space, N.Y.C., 1993 Univ. of Delaware Museum of Ar t, 1993 Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1990 Dayton Art Institute, E xperiencenter Gallery, Dayton, O., 1983 International Museum of Photography, Chalon-sur-Saône, France Museum of Photog. Arts, San Diego, National Portrai t Gallery, Wash., D.C. New Mexico Museum Fine Arts, SantaFe, NM George Pompidou Centre, Paris, France Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, N.J. Zeni th Gallery, Pittsburgh, Penn., 1983 Akron Museum of Art, Akron, Ohio, 1982 Bonfoey Galler y, Cleveland, Ohio, 1981 The Photography Place, Philadelphia, Penn., 1979 Image Co-Op, Montpelier, Vermont, 1978 SohoPhoto Galler y, 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. 74 Selected groupexhibitions Fascination with the Body, in focus gallery, with Alvin Booth, 2007, 14 photographs Eyes of Time, Galer ie Tammen, Berlin, 35 photographs, 2006 Gif s to the Nation, National Portrait Galler y, Wash.D.C., 2006, four photos Esthetic of the Erotic IV, Leipzig Museum of Photography, 2005 Fifteen Years, Fifteen Photographers, infocus gallery, Cologne, 2005 Photography from Pri vate Collections, Fotofor um Intern, Frankfurt, 2005 Exposed, Nudes of the 20th Centur y, Heilbronn Museum, with Weston,Brandt, Man Ray, Gibson, 2004, two photographs Nudes, infocus gallery, Cologne, 2004, two photographs Scapes: City & Land, Butler Institute of American Art, Trumbul l, with Simona Frajndlich, 51 photographs Before, During and After 9/11, Dead Horse Gal ler y, L akewood, Ohio, 2002, 20 photographs Portrait of the Art World A Century of ARTnews Photographs, starting at the New York Historical Societ y, NYC, and travelling to four venues through 2004, three photographs Princeton Art Museum, Peter Bunnel l Exhibition, 2002, two photographs Art Bridge: New Yor k Cologne New York, Edward Carter Gallery, NYC, 2001 World Wi dlife Fund Portfolio Exhibition, Der Hague, Helsinki, Frankfurt, Istanbul, 2000/2001, wi th 25 other international photographer s Documentation/Manipulation in 20th Centur y Photography, curated by David Ebitz, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Fla., 1999, 20 photographs. Photographic Portraits of Artists since 1945, curated by Michael Kohler, Museum Bad Arolsen, 1999 Stadtmuseum Hofheim am Taunus, March 1999-May 2000 eight portraits of Cindy Sherman, four portraits of Gi lber t & George Master Photographs from the Permanent Collect ion, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996, one photograph, inclusive catalogue, 15 photographs Leica Gallery, Two Person with Ralph Gibson 1996 Thinking Print, Books to Bi llboards, , The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1996, Large group show, 9 photos as part of a Portfolio 500 Capp St. with David Ireland, text by John Ashbery The Essential Art: 140 Years of American Photography from the Ansel Adams and Virginia Adams Collect ion, Universi ty of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography traveling show, 1992, one photograph. Les Conserves de Nicephore, exhibition and catalog of permanent collection of Musee Nicephore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France, 10 photo,1992 May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, Inside Self someone else, Day ton Art Institute, wi h Eleanor Antin, Robert Arneson, Luis A zaceta, Jay Bolot in, Lynn Her shman, William Wiley, 1984 PhotoCollect, New York City, Two Person wi th Minor Whi te, 1983 Universit y of Flor ida Ar t Department Gallery, Gainesville, Fla., Two-per son exhibit with Chris Pekoc, 1982 September OPPLEV Abe frajndlich

5 Second Sight Infra Red Survey, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, 1981, Show t raveled in U.S. and Europe through 1984 New Gal ler y of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, Three-person exhibi t, 1981 Personae, Mather Gal ler y, Case Wester n 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 Ar t, Andover, Mass., 1976 Gallery of Photographic Arts, North Olmsted, Ohio, Two-person exhibit with Ansel Adams, 1977 G. Ray Hawkins Gal lery, Beverly Hills, Cal., 1976 MIT, Cambr idge, Mass., Two-person exhibit, 1976 Celebrations, MIT, Cambridge, Mass., 1974 Children: , E xchange National Bank, Chicago, 1973 Museum collections Akron Museum of Ar, Akron, Ohio Bibl ioteque Nationale, Paris, France Butler Institute American Ar t, Youngstown, Ohio Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, O. Cleveland State University, Cleveland, O. George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Jewish Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany M. I.T. Cambridge, Mass. Museum of Modern Art, New York City Musee Nicephore Niepce, John and Mabel Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CL Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida Uni versity of Arizona, Tempe, Center of Creative Photography Victor ia and Alber t Museum, London Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY Whitney Museum of Art, NYC Selected corporate & private collections Bank One, Chicago, Illinois Tom & Kather ine Bal l, Cleveland and Venice Baker & Hostetler, Cleveland Peter Bunnel l, Princeton, N.J. BP Corporat ion., Cleveland AGA Burdox, Stock holm, Sweden Simon Crocker, London and Los Angeles Nancy Dickenson, Santa Fe, NM Har r y Drake, Minneapol is, Minnesota Mi l ton Esterow, New York City Eikoh Hosoe, Tokyo Hunt ington Bank, Columbus, Ohio Bill Jack l in, New York City and Newpor t Kopperman & Wolf, Cleveland Peter Lewis, New Yor k City, Aspen and Cleveland Gilbert Lloyd, London Herbert Locher, Cologne, Germany McKinsey & Company, Cleveland Ohio Savings, Cleveland Kurt Olden, NYC Francine & Benson Piloff, Cleveland and Raleigh, N. Carolina Hans-Georg & Bernadette Pospischil, Frankfurt, Germany Progressi ve Corp., Cleveland, Ohio and Albany, NY James Rosenquist, New York Cit y Don Sander s, Houston, Texas Shearman & Sterling, Frankfurt Lothar Schi rmer, Munich Target Corporation, Minneapol is, Minn. Jürgen Tesch, Munich and Berlin Michael Trapp, Frankfurt Garner Tullis, New York, Monograph Abe Frajndlich Portrai ts, Prestel Munich, London, New Yor k, 2000, 83 photographs Eros Eterna, Unschau Braus, Heideberg, Germany, 1999, 115 photos Masters of Light, Catalog to exhibition, Museum Ludwig, 1990, 54 photos Lives I ve Never Lived: A Portrait of Minor White, Arc Press, Cleveland, Ohio, 1983, 83 photographs Cleveland Infra Red, Publi xmprints, Cleveland, Ohio, 1981, 83 photographs Figments, Self-published, Boston, 1975, 59 photographs Portfolios 500 CAPP, Col laborat ion with Dav id I reland, John Ashberry, and Gunner Kaldewey, Kaldewey Press, Edition 46, 1995 Glove, Col laborat ion with painter, Chris Pekoc, 12 photographs, ARC Press, Edition 50, 1982 Homage to Yuk io Mishima, Introduct ion by Eikoh Hosoe, 12 photographs, ARC Press, Edition 35, 1980 Ent ropic Freeze, Int roductor y quote from Nathaniel West s Miss Lonelyhear ts, ARC Press, 12 photos, Edi t ion 35, 1980 Cleveland Inf ra Red, Int roduct ion by Peter Lewis, 12 photographs, ARC Press, Edi t ion of 60, 1980 Lives I ve Never Lived: A Portrait of Minor Whi te, Int ro by Douglas Nei l Pr udden, 12 photos, Cleveland, Ohio, Edi t ion 50, 1979 Pr i vate Figments, Intro by D.N. Prudden, 12 photos, Boston, Mass, edition of 25, September 2.-7 akt workshop