Currently exhibiting the work of the Bechers, this is the first room you walk into when entering the Fraenkel Gallery.
One of the most impressive photography sites in San Francisco is the Fraenkel Gallery at 49 Geary Street. Now approaching their 35th Anniversary, the gallery pretty much sets the bar on how to do things with the utmost refinement, quality, and care - as you will see from all these pictures. I'm not sure that the early masters of photography could have even envisioned something like this - multiple galleries and private showrooms, busy staff, a level of finish you would expect to see only when looking at old master paintings. But Fraenkel have not only grown but thrived - and the secret of their success, I believe, is a passion for the work they show and the environment they create for it. Whether in their gallery, or in the cards and catalogs they print, or when they do an art fair there is a level of perfectionism that puts them in a league of their own. You'll see ...
A second gallery leads to yet another room.
In every room, the sight lines into the next room are carefully thought out.
Here, Richard Avedon's portrait of Robert Frank.
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