Lee Friedlander: America by Car (D.A.P./FRAENKEL)

Lee Friedlander: America by Car (D.A.P./FRAENKEL)
- Fine Art
- Black and White
- Museum of Modern Art
Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country's vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual "form" for making photographs. Driving across most of the country's 50 states in an ordinary rental car, Friedlander applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield and the side windows as a picture frame within which to record the country's eccentricities and obsessions at the turn of the century. This method allows for fascinating effects in foreshortening, and wonderfully telling juxtapositions in which steering wheels, dashboards and leatherette bump up against roadside bars, motels, churches, monuments, suspension bridges, landscapes and often Friedlander's own image, via sideview mirror shots. Presented in the square crop format that has dominated his look in recent series, and taken over the past decade, the nearly 200 images in America by Car are easily among Friedlander's finest, full of virtuoso touch and clarity, while also revisiting themes from older bodies of work (Friedlander occasionally used aspects of automotive architecture in photographs from the late 1960s and early 1970s). Never has America been photographed so penetratingly and ingeniously as in Friedlander's latest body of work.
Country USA
Brand Brand: D.A.P./Fraenkel
Manufacturer D.A.P./Fraenkel Gallery
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2010-07-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781935202073

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: D.A.P./Fraenkel
Manufacturer	D.A.P./Fraenkel Gallery
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2010-07-31
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781935202073