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Series Title: Lives I've Never Lived: A Portrait of Minor White

Close-Up Eyes, from the series "Portrait of Minor White,"

1976

Abe Frajndlich

(American, b.1946)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 31.5 x 40.4 cm (12 3/8 x 15 7/8 in.); Paper: 35.5 x 43 cm (14 x 16 15/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Abe Frajndlich 1986.156
Copyright
© 1976 Abe Frajndlich
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Former Clevelander Abe Frajndlich has enjoyed a long career photographing people, making highly personalized portraits. During the first half of 1976, he collaborated with friend and mentor Minor White—one of the 20th century’s most influential photographers and teachers—to create a body of haunting portraits of an aged, dying White, emaciated and mystical. In this revealing detail, Frajndlich concentrated on his subject’s piercing eyes, using them symbolically to refer to a complex, compelling personality, rooted in deeply felt artistic, philosophical, and spiritual convictions.

Close-Up Eyes, from the series "Portrait of Minor White,"

1976

Abe Frajndlich

(American, b.1946)
America

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