Sommer may fairly be said to represent the ideal of the photographer's photographer. Neither as well known as many of the other acknowledged masters of art photography, nor as prolific, Sommer is nonetheless considered one of the very great living photographers [article written in 1986]. Working throughout the entire spectrum of photography, with an authentically surrealist sensibility, Sommer has produced a body of work which is as disturbing as it is exquisite. Typically, his photographs require long periods of preparation, nowhere more so than in his manufactured objects and collages which he then photographs. It was not until 1956 that his first major portfolio of photographs was published, and six vears later that the first monograph on his work appeared. Frederick Sommer: Coyotes 1945
Coyotes 1945