Get To Know: The Fraenkel Gallery In San Francisco

The Fraenkel Gallery may be too far for you to travel right now, but the website is packed with information and inspiration. In addition to surprisingly large online images of works in the current exhibition, there are also archives of many prominent photographers’ prints, plus video conversations and interviews on a variety of topics. You can shop the store for books and posters, too. Check out the timeline for a history of the gallery, which includes a print of one of Lee Friedlander’s previously overlooked negatives.

“Since 1979, Fraenkel Gallery has presented almost 400 exhibitions exploring photography and its relation to other media. The gallery exhibits and publishes significant works of art in a variety of media spanning two centuries. We believe that to understand photographs it helps to see them in light of other objects, and vice versa.”

Of particular interest to Oregonians, until May 27,2022 is the Robert Adams exhibition, SEA STONE & OTHER PICTURES. Here you will see recently painted woodblocks from Adams’ memories of the Colorado prairie, in addition to black and white prints in various sizes. Adams’ work has been shown is galleries world wide. He received Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundation fellowships, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, and also the Hasselblad Foundation International Award.

Fraenkel Gallery
49 Geary Street, 4th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108

Tuesday–Friday, 10:30am–5:30pm
Saturday, 11am–5pm

1 415-981-2661

Robert Adams, Untitled, 2020, courtesy of the Fraenkel Gallery