Alfred Eisenstadt, NYC, 1988 -by Abe Frajndlich   [+] The saga began in 1988 when Peter Howe, the picture editor at Life magazine at the time, asked me to photograph the “Grandes Dames of Photography,” influential figures like Berenice Abbot, Barbara Morgan, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, and Ruth Bernhard. In the middle of the shootings I began to feel that Howe was exercising reverse sexism, by excluding the “old boys,” and so he gave me a green light to photograph Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Andreas Feininger, Alfred Eisenstadt, and others; and I was on my way.  [read and see more]— Abe Frajndlich, about his book: ‘Penelope’s Hungry Eyes: Portraits of Famous Photographers’ (Schirmer/Mosel, 2011) quote and photo from lalettre

Alfred Eisenstadt, NYC, 1988 -by Abe Frajndlich   [+]

The saga began in 1988 when Peter Howe, the picture editor at Life magazine at the time, asked me to photograph the “Grandes Dames of Photography,” influential figures like Berenice Abbot, Barbara Morgan, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, and Ruth Bernhard. In the middle of the shootings I began to feel that Howe was exercising reverse sexism, by excluding the “old boys,” and so he gave me a green light to photograph Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Andreas Feininger, Alfred Eisenstadt, and others; and I was on my way.  [read and see more]
— Abe Frajndlich, about his book: ‘Penelope’s Hungry Eyes: Portraits of Famous Photographers’ (Schirmer/Mosel, 2011)

quote and photo from lalettre

Alfred Eisenstadt, NYC, 1988 -by Abe Frajndlich   [+] The saga began in 1988 when Peter Howe, the picture editor at Life magazine at the time, asked me to photograph the “Grandes Dames of Photography,” influential figures like Berenice Abbot, Barbara Morgan, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, and Ruth Bernhard. In the middle of the shootings I began to feel that Howe was exercising reverse sexism, by excluding the “old boys,” and so he gave me a green light to photograph Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Andreas Feininger, Alfred Eisenstadt, and others; and I was on my way.  [read and see more]— Abe Frajndlich, about his book: ‘Penelope’s Hungry Eyes: Portraits of Famous Photographers’ (Schirmer/Mosel, 2011) quote and photo from lalettre

Alfred Eisenstadt, NYC, 1988 -by Abe Frajndlich   [+]

The saga began in 1988 when Peter Howe, the picture editor at Life magazine at the time, asked me to photograph the “Grandes Dames of Photography,” influential figures like Berenice Abbot, Barbara Morgan, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, and Ruth Bernhard. In the middle of the shootings I began to feel that Howe was exercising reverse sexism, by excluding the “old boys,” and so he gave me a green light to photograph Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Andreas Feininger, Alfred Eisenstadt, and others; and I was on my way.  [read and see more]
— Abe Frajndlich, about his book: ‘Penelope’s Hungry Eyes: Portraits of Famous Photographers’ (Schirmer/Mosel, 2011)

quote and photo from lalettre

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