Biografie von Frederick SOMMER (1905-1999)

Birth place: Angri, Italy

Addresses: Tucson, AZ (1985)

Profession: Photographer

Studied: Cornell, 1927 (landscape architecture)

Exhibited: Santa Barbara MA, 1946; Chicago Inst. Des., 1957; Pasadena AM; Phila. College Art.

Work: AIC; FMA; IMP; MoMA, Univ. New Mexico; Center Creative Photography, Tucson.

Comments: Surrealist, sometimes nightmarish, photographer of assemblages and collages, beginning 1935.

Sources: Witkin & London, 239; Trenton, ed. Independent Spirits, 148.