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

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

1976
(American, b.1946)
America, 20th century
gelatin silver print
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.)
Gift of Abe Frajndlich 1986.156
© 1976 Abe Frajndlich
Location: not on view
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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,"

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

1976

Abe Frajndlich

(American, b.1946)
America, 20th century

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