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Lee Friedlander
15 Photographs1962-1972

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Black and white photograph of a glowing vintage television displaying a blurred child's face, positioned behind a wooden crib with a textured mattress
Gelatin silver print of a furniture store window display featuring a bed with a patterned coverlet, dressers, and small appliances, with street reflections including a lamppost and church steeple superimposed over the merchandise.
Gelatin silver print of two women viewed through a shop window, one in a pleated top with a beaded necklace holding a handbag, the other examining a small box; stacked merchandise on the display ledge, with reflections in the glass.
Gelatin silver print of a storefront window, partially frosted, reflecting an urban skyline with multi-story buildings. A small photograph affixed to the glass shows a figure bent closely over a work surface.
Gelatin silver print of an urban street corner with a utility pole, no-parking sign, and sidewalk receding toward brick commercial buildings bearing "Hotel" and "Cleaners" signs; a commercial aircraft visible in the distant sky.
Gelatin silver print of a street-level storefront display, an American flag spread flat among canned goods in a shop window above a granite-clad base with a ventilation grille; at far right, a person's lower leg and shoe visible on the sidewalk.
Gelatin silver print, rear view of a person with light-colored hair wearing a fur-trimmed hat and fur coat, an urban street with mid-20th-century automobiles and multistory buildings receding into the background
Gelatin silver print, candid close-up of several people in a dimly lit interior; a woman with long straight hair peers toward camera while a man with curly hair drinks from a glass with a straw, figures tightly cropped against a dark background
Gelatin silver print of a street scene viewed through and reflected in a large side-view mirror, with 1960s-era automobiles, utility poles, overhead wires, a partial billboard, and a figure visible in the mirror's reflection.
Gelatin silver print of a deserted street corner with a utility pole bearing a 'Lee Av.' street sign, a concrete sidewalk leading nowhere, and a pile of debris at right; receding power lines, low hills, and a flat body of water stretch into a hazy distance.
Gelatin silver print of an urban streetscape, a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire runs along the left foreground beside a bare shrub and sidewalk, with a low commercial building, utility poles, and a multistory apartment block receding into a flat gray sky.
Gelatin silver print of a residential street scene, with a concrete sidewalk receding toward the horizon, bare deciduous trees at left, a tall palm tree at center, and a small wood-frame house with a covered porch at right.
Gelatin silver print, urban street scene viewed through dark vertical bars in the foreground; a directional road sign, parked car, trees, and a distant figure atop a pedestal visible in the background.
Gelatin silver print of a roadside scene with a large yield sign in the foreground, a clapboard house, travel trailer, and parked car visible across a dirt lot beside a sidewalk and road.
Gelatin silver print of an urban street corner, a weathered utility pole with peeling paint and a partial number dominating the foreground, a commercial sidewalk stretching toward a storefront with a "Max's" sign and Meister Bräu advertisement at right, parked cars and pedestrians in middle distance, elevated structure visible at upper left.
Photographic print with warm sepia and cool gray tones, featuring overlapping organic and fragmented forms against a deep black background, with visible screen or mesh texture throughout the surface.
Gelatin silver print, abstract still life with rounded fruit forms and radiating linear shapes emerging from deep shadow, warm sepia tones with soft, painterly surface texture.
Open magazine spread titled 'Photography,' with dense columns of text alongside a large nighttime photograph of a city street with bare tree branches silhouetted against illuminated buildings, and a smaller color photograph at lower right showing a modern glass building facade with yellow and green geometric reflections.
Magazine cover, Newsweek dated October 21, 1974, featuring a circular pinwheel collage of six photographs on a black background: a figure seen from behind in warm tones, soldiers in black and white, a close-up of lips and red capsules, a woman in a white head covering, a colorized aerial or satellite map, and a man near industrial equipment.
Gelatin silver print reproduction in a magazine spread, showing several children running on a road, one unclothed girl in the foreground, with soldiers visible in the background.
Magazine spread with five color photographs arranged in a grid layout: a woman in a blue dress standing on urban brownstone steps; close-up of lips with green lipstick; a false-color satellite or aerial map in red and blue; a toy or model car among foliage; and a green-tiled bathroom interior. A text block titled 'Fields of Vision' appears at center.
Magazine spread titled 'Photography' featuring a grid of black and white and color photographs, including a candid outdoor scene of rice farmers in a field, a reclining female figure, and a male portrait, with multi-column text throughout.
Newsweek magazine spread on photography, featuring black-and-white portrait photographs of several photographers and subjects alongside dense columns of text.
Magazine spread from Newsweek, October 21, 1974, titled 'The Eye and The Image,' featuring black-and-white photographs and columns of text discussing photography and two photographers.
Open book spread featuring a grid of black and white documentary photographs, including war scenes, a landscape with a figure posed against a rock face beneath a full moon, and indoor scenes, alongside a text column headed 'The Documentary.'
Magazine spread with multiple black-and-white photographs arranged in a collage layout. Top row shows a sequence of six small images of figures in motion in interior spaces. Lower left features an oval-framed photograph of two reclining figures. Center includes a cut-out figure of a standing man surrounded by layered newspaper clippings and text fragments. Right panel shows a dimly lit doorway interior. Printed text at upper right reads "New Directions" and "Really Art."
Magazine spread open to pages featuring multiple black and white photographs: an elderly man's close-up portrait at lower left, a woman in a light-colored hat at upper center, and two figures in wide-brimmed hats at lower center. Bold typographic text partially visible reads 'IT'S OVER 4 GRAN.' Text columns surround the images.
Gelatin silver print of a nude figure, crouched and tightly compressed within a car doorframe, hair swept across the face in motion blur, creating a distorted, fragmented composition.
Gelatin silver print, abstract nocturnal landscape with dark undulating mountain ridges against a black sky, scattered white dots and streaking diagonal lines suggesting falling light, with a pale gray wash across the lower left.
Gelatin silver print of a rough textured wall with layers of torn and peeling posters; a partially intact printed face of a woman emerges from the weathered fragments, surrounded by dark geometric letterforms.
Intaglio print in deep blacks and dark grays, with horizontal banded striations across the surface interrupted by clustered circular and irregular raised forms, fine incised lines, and areas of crackled texture suggesting an aerial or geological composition.
Gelatin silver print with abstract composition of torn, crumpled, and folded material in deep charcoal tones, with pale vertical bands and ragged edges creating textural contrasts across the surface.
Artist or Maker
Lee Friedlander
Title
15 Photographs
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1962-1972
Medium
Gelatin-silver print
Dimensions
Image: 5 3/4 × 8 13/16 in. (14.61 × 22.38 cm) Primary support: 5 3/4 × 8 13/16 in. (14.61 × 22.38 cm) Secondary support: 15 13/16 × 20 in. (40.16 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund
Accession Number
M.84.178.7-.21
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography