Introduction
Since 1979, Fraenkel Gallery has presented almost 300 exhibitions exploring photography and its relation to other arts. The exhibitions have spanned the medium’s history, from its early masters to the present day. The gallery’s earliest exhibitions investigated the work of Carleton Watkins, Lee Friedlander, and NASA’s lunar photographs, and these set a tone and pattern for what followed. Because photography’s brief history lends itself to examination backward, forward, and sideways in time, the gallery has presented exhibitions as diverse as Walker Evans, Eugene Atget, Edward Weston, Diane Arbus, the Bechers, Adam Fuss, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Sol LeWitt. Over the past year the gallery has shown new works by Katy Grannan, Richard Learoyd and Christian Marclay. The gallery represents the estates of Garry Winogrand and Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and is a primary representative for the work of Diane Arbus, Robert Adams, Lee Friedlander, Adam Fuss, Katy Grannan, Helen Levitt, Richard Misrach, Nicholas Nixon, and Hiroshi Sugimoto.
In addition to its museum-quality exhibitions, the gallery has published numerous monographs and exhibition catalogs. In exhibitions such as Open Secrets, Dust Breeding, Nothing and Everything, and Edward Hopper & Company, Fraenkel Gallery has brought together work across media, juxtaposing photographs with paintings, drawings, and sculpture. The gallery maintains long-established relationships with museums, private collectors, and corporations around the world, and welcomes the experienced collector as well as those beginning to consider collecting photographs.
What is your point of view on the financial side of the photographic market today ?
The position of photography within the broader context of the art world has never been stronger. There has been a proliferation of the number of artists working with photography and for whom the photographic object is the final form. The walls that separated photography from the rest of the fine arts during much of the 20th century have fallen. The question of whether or not photography is an art is now a laughable one. Accompanying this position is a concurrent growth in the market for photographs. The history of the medium, far beyond the pale of the established canon of decades passed, is being fleshed out with unbridled enthusiasm. Important historical photographs—and, it should be noted, photographic books—as well as works by rising stars of the contemporary scene are commanding prices unheard of in previous years. We expect to see this trend continue. Fraenkel Gallery has, for the past 32 years, played an important role at the forefront of the growth of the market for the best works in the medium. We’re excited about continuing that legacy deep into the future.
Artists exhibited
Robert Adams, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Mel Bochner, Lee Friedlander, Katy Grannan, Florence Henri, Richard Learoyd, Sol LeWitt, Eli Lotar, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Richard Misrach, NASA, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Edward Weston, Francesca Woodman
Fraenkel Gallery
Stand : B38
49 Geary Street
94108, San Francisco, CA États-Unis
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