Wed 9/9 @ 6PM
German-born Cleveland photographer Abe Frajndlich moved to New York in the 1970s, where he photographed and got to know many important figures in the arts community, including fellow photographers. One of those was Ilse Bing (1899-1998), a German photographer who became successful in Paris in the 1930s, using the lightweight, technically superior Leica camera, before fleeing to New York in 1941 (she was Jewish). She continued to experiment with various forms of photography before giving it up in the mid 50s.
Currently, Bing is the subject of the exhibition Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica, now at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Frajndlich, who has returned to Cleveland, and CMA curator of photography Barbara Tannenbaum will hold a conversation called “A Photographic Friendship: Abe Frajndlich and Ilse Bing,” in which Frajndlich will share his recollections of, and insights into, Bing, based on their collaborations in the ’80s and ’90s.
Sign up to eavesdrop on the virtual conversation here.
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