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Allen Frame: Fever
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Fever, Allen Frame’s new book of 50 color photographs made in 1981 in New York City, was released by Matte Editions in May this year.
Frame moved to New York in 1977 and began to photograph friends from his college days and others he was meeting. By 1981, he had a circle of artist friends that he photographed in his apartment, their studios, on beaches, and on the streets of New York. Frame had previously worked mostly in black and white, but in 1981, he photographed extensively with color. At the end of the book, Frame interviews eight of the artists who are still living about that period in New York.
The introduction to Fever is by Drew Sawyer, the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Curator at the Brooklyn Museum. The book is published in an edition of 600 copies, 152 pages, 50 color photographs and ephemera. A deluxe edition of 25 copies priced at $200 each includes a 4x6 digital chromogenic print of the photograph Bob, George, Bill, Charlie, and Zamba at Jones Beach signed and hand numbered by the artist.
Fever is the 6th book published by Matte Editions, the Brooklyn-based publishing imprint of Matthew Leifheit. MATTE Magazine, founded in 2010 as a platform for new ideas in photography, has recently published work by emerging artists including Chanell Stone, Leor Miller, Olivia Reavey, and Hak Dixon.
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Allen Frame is an artist, writer, curator, and educator based in New York, where his work is represented by Gitterman Gallery. In 2025, his solo exhibition Amalfi was presented at College of Charleston and his photographs exhibited at Kupper-Modern in Zurich and at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College. He has released four books of photography, including Whereupon (Palermo Publishing, 2023); Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2023); Fever (Matte Editions, 2021); and Detour (Kehrer, 2001). He has also been the curator of many exhibitions, including Luxe, Calme, Volupte, co-curated with Sergio Bessa at Candice Madey Gallery, New York, in 2023, and Love and Jump Back, the Photography of Charles Henri Ford, at Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, 2020-21. He received the Rome Prize from the American Academy in 2017/18. He teaches photography at Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, International Center of Photography, and for Strudelmedialive.com
Allen teaches "The Life You're In: The Joy and Pathos of Autobiography" for StrudelmediaLive.
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Makeda Best is the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums. Her fall exhibition is Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography Since 1970. Her next exhibition at Harvard will explore the work of Darrell Ellis. With FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator Kevin Moore, she is co-curator of the 2022 FotoFocus Biennial group exhibition, On the Line.
