Exhibition Dates:
September 4 - November 28, 2010
Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York to mount first major exhibition
of master
photographer Lee Friedlander's new series.
Lee Friedlander
America by Car
Accompanied by a book published by
D.A.P./Fraenkel
"If you want
to understand America, start by looking out the window."
--Lee Friedlander
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Driving across most of the country's fifty states in an ordinary
rental car, master photographer Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) applied the
brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview
mirror, the windshield, and the side windows as picture frames within
which to record reflections of this country's eccentricities and
obsessions at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Friedlander's
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, essential American landscapes, and often
Friedlander's own image. Presented in the square crop format that has
dominated his work in recent series, and taken over the past decade,
the
images in America by Car are among Friedlander's finest, full
of
virtuoso freshness and clarity, while also revisiting themes from
older
bodies of work.
Lee Friedlander: America
By
Car is organized by Elisabeth Sussman, Sondra Gilman Curator of
Photography.
Born in 1934, Lee Friedlander is among the world's greatest living
photographers. His previous books include Sticks & Stones, Fredrick Law Olmsted Landscapes and New Mexico. His work was the subject of a
major 2005 retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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