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Frederick Sommer

Frederick Sommer (1905-1999) was born in Italy, grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and spent most of his working career in Prescott, Arizona. Though proficient in a variety of media, photography was his most prominent interest. Because of the grotesque and surreal content of some his images though, Sommer remained well outside the mainstream for most of his life. Now however, he is gradually gaining recognition as one of the most interesting and iconoclastic American photographers of the century.

Sommer, Frederick.
Frederick Sommer, 1939-1962: Photographs.
New York: Aperture, 1963.

Sommer, Frederick.
Frederick Sommer.
Washington, DC: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1965.

Sommer, Frederick.
Frederick Sommer: An Exhibition of Photographs at the Philadelphia College of Art, November 1 through November 30, 1968.
Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia College of Art, 1968.

Sommer, Frederick, in collaboration with Stephen Aldrich.
The Poetic Logic of Art and Aesthetics.
Stockton, NJ: Carolingian Press, 1972.

Sommer, Frederick.
Edited by Constance W. Glenn and Jane K. Bledsoe.
Frederick Sommer at Seventy-five: A Retrospective.
Long Beach, CA: Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, 1980.

Sommer, Frederick.
Edited by John Weiss.
Venus, Jupiter and Mars: The Photographs of Frederick Sommer.
Wilmington, DE: Delaware Art Museum, 1980.

Sommer, Frederick.
Photographs, Drawings and Musical Scores.
London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1981.

Sommer, Frederick.
Words/Images.
Tucson, AZ: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 1984.

Sommer, Frederick.
Essay by Stephen Aldrich.
The Mistress of This World Has No Name.
Denver, CO: Denver Art Museum, 1987.

Sommer, Frederick.
All Children Are Ambassadors.
Munich: Nazraeli Press, 1992.

Sommer, Frederick, and Weston Naef.
Poetry and Logic.
Los Angeles, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1994.

Conkelton, Sheryl, ed.
Frederick Sommer.
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1995.

Sommer, Frederick.
The Box.
Munich: Nazraeli Press, 1996.

Sommer, Frederick.
Son of the Box.
Munich: Nazraeli Press, 1997.

Sommer, Frederick.
Essay by Keith F. Davis; Interview by Michael Torosian; Chronology by April Watson.
The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage.
New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2005.