Cut-paper: Photographs

by Frederick Sommer

From Peter C. "Frederick Sommer was one of the most important photographic artists of the last half of the twentieth century. In the cut paper images, begun in 1962, his ideas come together in one complicated and extended gesture of spirit and hand--from conceptualization to making the paper labyrinth, to lighting and photographing, and finally, to printing and processing. In this work is both concealed and revealed a sense of mystery that is unique to Sommer. This book, beautifully and imaginatively executed, echoes in its sophistication and preciousness the distinctive emotion evoked by the very best of what he created."

28 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998