Mr.Stefanko is the author of the book Days of Hope and Dreams / an Intimate Portrait of Bruce Springsteen which has recently been released in the second edition. He is also the author of Patti Smith / American Artist which features beautiful images of a young emerging artist; Ms. Smith from 1970 to 1980.
Frank’s work has toured in two museum shows: Bruce Springsteen, Troubadour of the Highway, which, at the time, broke attendance records at the Frederick Weisman Museum in Minneapolis, The Cranbrook Museum near Detroit, The Experience Music Project in Seattle, and The Newark Museum in New Jersey. In 2012, the Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock Photography show will tour The Columbus Museum, in Georgia, The Hunter Museum of American Art, in Tennessee, The Gibbes Museum of Art, in South Carolina, The Huntsville Museum of Art, in Alabama, and The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, in Mississippi.
Mr. Stefanko is represented by The Morrison Hotel Gallery, in Soho, New York; the Govinda Gallery, in Washington, DC; the Fahey / Klein Gallery, in Los Angeles; and Snap Galleries Ltd. In London.
Beyond Frank’s Rock photography, he has been assembling a portfolio of landscape photographs that feature places where the footprint of man has not yet touched.
In addition, Frank is working on compiling his collection of vintage photographs, mostly from the New York underground of the CBGB, Max’s Kansas City era. Shot in the seventies, these photos feature individuals, locations, and scenes from a unique era that nurtured art, music, and poetry.
Whether Frank’s photographs are of rock icons, street scenes, or landscape photography, the glue that ties them together, and gives them Frank’s signature, is the soulful, moody, dignity that transcends the work.
Living in New Jersey, Mr. Stefanko has been making photographs for over fifty years. Self taught as a boy, inspired by film noir movies and the old masters such as Edward Steichen, Alfred Steiglitz, and Diane Arbus, he excelled in art and photography both in high school and college.
“Photography has been the one constant in my ever changing life.”
