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Fraenkel Gallery

Contemporary art gallery focused on exploring photography and its relation to other media.⁣ Walker, and Carrie Mae Weems.

The gallery represents the work of Robert Adams, Sophie Calle, Lee Friedlander, Adam Fuss, Nan Goldin, Katy Grannan, Richard Learoyd, Richard Misrach, Nicholas Nixon, Alec Soth, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, and works closely with the estates of Diane Arbus, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Peter Hujar, and Garry Winogrand. In recent years, the gallery has expanded its roster to include multidisciplinary artists suc

h as Elisheva Biernoff, Mel Bochner, Kota Ezawa, Martine Gutierrez, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Christian Marclay, Wardell Milan, Richard T. While photography has been a consistent through-line of our exhibitions and more than 70 publications, it is far from the whole story. Many exhibitions have featured artists whose work is not strictly, or not at all, photographic: Mel Bochner, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Agnes Martin, and Sol LeWitt among others. Fraenkel Gallery maintains long-established relationships with museums, private collectors, and corporations around the world, and welcomes the experienced collector as well as those just beginning.

09/09/2026

Maria DePaoli liked Lee Friedlander’s jacket when he showed up at the office at Sports Illustrated, looking for her boss. The boss was out, but Lee asked for her number and within seven months, in July 1958, they married. He began photographing her almost immediately, borrowing Walker Evans’s 8×10-inch view camera to make the memorable image above (one of the very few view camera pictures in Friedlander's career). Thus began a serial portrait that would unfold over seven decades.⁠
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View this photograph in our upcoming exhibition, Lee Friedlander: Maria, on view September 10–October 24. Learn more: https://fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/lee-friedlander-maria

09/08/2026

Installing our next exhibition, Lee Friedlander: Maria. 🪜 The show features over 50 photographs taken over seven decades by the inimitable photographer, and will be on view Thursday, September 10 through Saturday, October 24.

📸 2nd slide: Lee Friedlander, Taos, New Mexico, 1958

09/06/2026

Celebrating with a selection of images from our artists.⁠
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1. Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fagus Shoe Last Factory, 1998⁠
2. Robert Adams, In a luggage factory, Denver, Colorado, 1973⁠
3. Richard Misrach, Night Fishing, Near Bonnet Carré Spillway, Norco, Louisiana, 1998⁠
4. Carrie Mae Weems, Mom at Work, 1978-84, from the series Family Pictures and Stories⁠
5. Lee Friedlander, Cleveland, Ohio, 2009⁠
6. Alec Soth, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 2019⁠
7. Bernd and Hilla Becher, Blast Furnace, Rombas, Lorraine, France, 1984 © Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher⁠
8. Garry Winogrand, Labor Union Peace Rally, Lower Broadway, New York, 1969 © The Estate of Garry Winogrand⁠
9. Nan Goldin, The sky over Manhattan, Brooklyn, NY, 2020

09/03/2026

Opening next week, Lee Friedlander: Maria presents a seven-decade portrait of the artist’s wife, muse, and most recurrent subject. In approximately 50 photographs, the exhibition chronicles the unfolding of the couple’s relationship, while simultaneously charting the evolution of Friedlander’s artistic vision.

Lee Friedlander: Maria will be on view September 10–October 24. Learn more: https://fraenkelgallery.com/exhibitions/lee-friedlander-maria
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📸 Sydney, Australia, 1977

09/02/2026

Alec Soth is one of the artists featured in Niagara Falls: Mist and Majesty, on view at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. until September 20, 2026. Through approximately 20 works, the show highlights evolving perspectives about the falls, from 19th-century prints, drawings, and photographs to contemporary work. The exhibition marks the bicentennial of celebrated landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church, whose iconic panorama "Niagara" (1857), anchors the presentation. Soth’s photograph, from his series A Pound of Pictures, reveals “the people—both resident and visiting—who now populate a place radically altered from the wild beauty of Church’s painting,” the Gallery writes.

Learn more: https://www.nga.gov/press/niagara-falls-mist-and-majesty

Image: , Niagara Falls, Ontario. 2019, pigment print, 52 x 65 inches [132.1 x 165.1 cm]

08/31/2026

Remembering pioneering American photographer , who was born on this day in 1913. Noted for her street photography around New York City, Levitt's photographs capture the dynamism of the urban environment, with a specific eye to the unconsciously choreographed play-life of children.⁠

Images:
1. , Helen Levitt, 1959
2. Helen Levitt, Bronx, New York, ca. 1942
3-4. Helen Levitt, New York, ca. 1942
5. Helen Levitt, New York, ca. 1945
6. Helen Levitt, New York, ca. 1940

08/30/2026

In 1987, Richard Misrach stumbled across an artists event in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. The gathering featured "a group of people in color-coordinated outfits playing croquet with 6-foot balls, 15-foot wickets, and mallets in the form of pickup trucks with tires mounted on the front," as he described in a 2019 article for California Sunday Magazine. Years later, the artist returned to photograph what would later become Burning Man. He visited the event yearly until 1998, before it turned into what he called an "extravaganza." Misrach writes, "I was much more interested in its modest origins, when it was an unexpected gathering of artists who were creating a community on a vast, empty, vegetation-less expanse."

📸 , Neon Man, Black Rock Desert, Nevada, 1996

08/29/2026

“I’m usually so indirect—I love misdirection. It’s part of my magic trick, it’s how magic works. But this show is so not that, it’s so direct, it’s so open. It’s causing me to feel like it’s new territory.”
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In an interview in V magazine in connection with her solo show Wunderkind, on view at Huis Marseille in Amsterdam through October 18, Martine Gutierrez talks about “childhood dreams, The Little Mermaid, artmaking, and what it means to become a swan after feeling like an ugly duckling,” Elyssa Goodman writes. Read now: https://vmagazine.com/article/how-martine-gutierrez-became-a-wunderkind/

On Sunday 6 September, Huis Marseille will host a screening and conversation between the artist and her mother. The two will revisit the making of "The Search for True Beauty," a film Martine made at the age of ten, and reflect on the creative freedom that shaped Gutierrez's childhood and continues to resonate throughout her artistic practice today. Tickets: https://huismarseille.nl/en/events/film-screening-and-conversation-between-martine-gutierrez-and-her-mother/
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Installation views courtesy Huis Marseille. Photos by Eddo Hartmann

08/27/2026

On view through May 2028, Phoenix Art Museum brings Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's "The Instrument of Troubled Dreams" to Arizona audiences for the first time. 🎹

In this interactive audio installation, a 1960s Mellotron keyboard is transformed into a storytelling device. Each of the 72 keys has been programmed to playback a different sound effect, vocal track, or musical part. A raven flies through the space; a lone rower navigates amongst the pillars in the flooded Church; a boat overflowing with people is hit by a storm off the coast; Sweelinck composes in the organist’s loft; a wave of bombers passes overhead; the police search a small apartment, a Ferris wheel floats past on a barge. The sounds and narratives play in surround sound over 23 speakers encircling the listener/performer in a dystopian story of their own making.

Learn more: https://phxart.org/exhibition/janet-cardiff-and-george-bures-miller-the-instrument-of-troubled-dreams/
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Installation views of Cardiff & Miller, The Instrument of Troubled Dreams, 2018. Interactive audio installation with ambisonic sound. Phoenix Art Museum. Photo: Katie Jones-Weinert

08/26/2026

What would we do without our four legged friends? A selection of very good dogs for . 🐾

Pictured:
Storyville Portrait, ca. 1912
Campo Boario, Rome. #2, 2020
Deb with Friend, by Tuolumne River, Modesto, CA, 2013
Dog on a Blanket, 1980 © The Peter Hujar Archive, LLC / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York⁠
Untitled (July 31, 2012 2:26PM), 2012
Maria Morris, 1976
New York, 1961 © The Estate of Garry Winogrand
Sally next to the back porch steps. Longmont, Colorado, ca. 1985
Alec Soth, Chua Tam-Bao. Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2021
Lee Friedlander, Egypt, 1983

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Tuesday	10:30am - 5:30pm
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Thursday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Friday	10:30am - 5:30pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm

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