Frederick Sommer was born in Italy on Sept. 7th, 1905, but grew up in Brazil. He came to the United States to study landscape architecture from Cornell University in 1927. He returned to Brazil after that and had tuberculosis, so he had to go to Switzerland. There, he became interested in photography and purchased his very first camera. He moved to Arizona in 1935. Photography was his secondary after painting and composing. That is, until he met Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
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