Background
Fredrich Cantor was born in 1944 in New York City, New York, United States.
Fredrich Cantor was born in 1944 in New York City, New York, United States.
Cantor studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York (1962-64, 1966-67), at San Francisco Art Institute (1966), at Cooper Union in New York City (1969) and at Art Students' League in Woodstock, New York (1962, 1963).
A freelance photographer since 1970, he has taught at Parsons School of Design (1977-78) and at the School of Visual Arts (1975-76) in New York City; at Brooklyn College (1974-76); and at Bucks County Community College, Pennsylvania (1973-74).
Cantor received a fellowship to the MacDowell Colony in 1980, also to Yaddo in 1978 and 1979 and to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 1979.
The photographer produced black-and-white and color images of people and landscapes and has worked with strobe lighting since 1975.
PUBLICATIONS Monograph: Rome: Volume 1, 1977 (self-published). Periodicals: Photo-journal, Dec & Nov 1979; Foto, Feb 1979; Progresso Fotográfico, Dec 1978; Le Nouveau Photocmema, Feb 1977; Creative Camera, Mar 1975; Zoom, April 1980 (Paris), May/Jun 1973 (Paris); British Journal of Photography, Nov 12, 1971.
Quotes from others about the person
His work has been described as having “a modern sensibility that loves clean design as well as the rapport between commonplace objects and monuments that are eternal" (Daniela Palazzoli, L’Europeo, June 1977).
