This huge photo of the Rolling Stones at the launch of their album "The Bridges of Babylon" 1997, was the very first Wow!-impression when I entered the Kunstfoyer Munich.
It was a spontaneous decision to go there by train: I needed a splash of "bit city".
Abe Frajndlich was born in 1946 in Frankfurt/Main Germany in a camp for Displaced Persons. His parents were Jews from Poland - Holocaust-survivors, who met each other in that camp after WWII. Abe's life was full of personal tragedies: his father was murdered, and when he was 10 his mother died after an operation. As a child he moved a lot: from Frankfurt to Tel Aviv and back, followed by Paris and Brazil, and finally to the USA, New York. (All these details from SZ-journalist Christian Mayer). His Photo teacher was Minor White, and he has lots of friends among famous photographers as Irving Penn, Annie Leibovitz, and many others.
Wonderful photos of New York, and great portraits of famous people (but of strangers too).
Guess who she is?
You can see photos of Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, Cindy Sherman , Charles Bukowski, Yoko Ono. And maybe you know this one of Jack Lemmon.
"It's all about seeing
and all the things
that get in the way
of that simple act (...)"
Abe writes in a long sort of poem
"Site Specific Investigations Of A Glove".
A very interesting exhibition which you can visit till 1.April - free entrance.