Background
Klaus Frahm was born on August 23, 1953 near Boernsen, Hamburg, Germany.
Klaus Frahm was born on August 23, 1953 near Boernsen, Hamburg, Germany.
Klaus Frahm studied communications and social anthropology at Mainz University, West Germany (1974-1976), and is self-taught in photography. His major influences have been Walker Evans, C.J. Laughlm, Edward Weston, Emmett Gowin and Larry Fink.
A freelance photographer since 1977, Klaus Frahm has worked for McCann-Erickson, GGK and ECM Records. In 1976-1977 he was a photography instructor for U.S. forces in Mainz. After turning from small- to large-format in 1978, Klaus Frahm began photographing the man-made landscape of Germany, including a documentation of Brickstone architecture in Hamburg and of the Hamburg suburbs.