4 - Whitney Museum, Lee Friedlander : America by Car

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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Lee Friedlander: America by Car
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FORMAT: Clothbound, 9.5 x 9.5 in. / 200 pgs / 190 duotone.
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ISBN: 9781935202073

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