Frank Yamrus

caroline - essence

1995

Toned gelatin silver print (Edition of 5) Signed, dated, numbered, and inscribed in pencil, verso 9 x 9.5 inches, sheet size 7.25 x 7.25 inches, image size This artwork is offered ...

Toned gelatin silver print Signed, titled, dated, and numbered, recto 14 x 11 inches, sheet (Edition of 25) 20 x 16 inches, sheet (Edition of 25) 24 x 20 inches, sheet (Edition of...

Gelatin silver print (Edition of 10) Signed, dated, and numbered, verso 20 x 16 inches, sheet size 15 x 15 inches, image size From the series, "Primitive Behavior" This artwork is ...

Gold-toned gelatin silver print with 8-ply over-mat and mounted to archival, 4-ply Crescent Natural White mat board Signed and numbered, recto 34 x 28 inches, overall mat size 28 x ...

One of the most famous members of the Humanist photography in France. Signed lower right by the artist. Stamp of the artist's studio on the back.

One of the most famous members of the Humanist photography in France. Signed lower right by the artist. Stamp of the artist's studio on the back.

A camera is a window through which a photographer interacts with the world, and it's up to the operator to decide whether his camera will be a barrier or a mirror between he and his subjects. In the 1970s, Michael Abramson chose the latter path when he brought his camera to Pepper's Hideout on Chicago's South Side. Following in the footsteps of his acknowledged influence Gyula Halász, a Hungarian photographer better known as Brassaï who became the pre-eminent chronicler of the Paris nightlife he loved so much, Abramson initiated himself into the nightlife of Chicago's predominantly black neighbourhoods. He was very much a part of the scene he documented on film, drinking, laughing, and dancing with his subjects into small hours and becoming as much a part of the atmosphere as the locals who frequented the same nightspots he did. - Joe Tangari (Numero Group, 2009) This series won Abramson a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and launched his career as a photojournalist. Eventually the project resulted in a hardbound book, Light: On the South Side, including the Grammy and Mojo nominated album, featuring Chicago blues...

"Abramson comes much closer to recording the sound of these clubs than we would have any right to expect from a photographer." - Nick Hornby (London, 2009), Light On the South Side, ...