DATE: March 5, 2009

Review: Fraenkel Gallery's Anniversary Show on Edward Hopper and Photography


Images Separated at Birth? Little attention has been paid to American photography's relationship to Hopper.


ImageLee Friedlander, New York City, 1962. Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
So for the 30th anniversary of the Fraenkel Gallery, the San Francisco photography dealer Jeffrey Fraenkel has assembled an ambitious show and an accompanying book to explore this terrain.

ImageEdward Hopper, Intermission, 1963. Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
The exhibition, "Edward Hopper & Company," which opens on Thursday and runs through May 2, groups seven paintings and three sketches by Hopper with dozens of images by eight photographers, most of whom are represented by the gallery: Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander and Stephen Shore.

Read the complete review in the New York Times.





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