Sommer, Frederick
American (b. Italy, 1905-1999)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Moon Culmination

1951
gelatin silver print
24.3 x 19.3 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 28465
72:0006:0001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Glenn, Constance W. & Bledsoe, Jane K. --Frederick Sommer at Seventy-Five: A Retrospective.-- Long Beach: California State University, 1980. p. 53.//
Sommer, Frederick. --Sommer: Words/Images.-- Tuscon, AZ: Center for Creative Photography/ Univ. of Arizona, 1984. pl. 33.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 649.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Acquisitions 1970-1973", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark, October 13, 1973 - January 30, 1974.//
""Permanent" Survey Exhibition - 20th Century", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, August 1979 - March 1984, 1979.//

INSCRIPTION: mount verso-(in pencil) "Moon Culmination 1948 (sic)" (signed) "Frederick Sommer 1948 (sic)"

copyright, Frederick Sommer

NOTES: Cataloged 5/88, DZ, updated 3/91, DZ. Correct date of image provided by Steve Aldridge, Sommer's assistant, 3/91.

SUBJECT: study, found objects