Lee Friedlander (1934–) - Virginia, 1961

The entrance to a restaurant, a Chevrolet parked in front.
The photograph showing 'White Only' on the storefront is taken in Virginia.
the sixties
A beautiful graphic composition that struggles to hide the sad daily reality of segregation.
still in place in many states at the time.

Black and white digital printing with a glossy coating. Hot surface lamination.
Old model of Misomex assembly (film or CTP file replication machine)
Computer to Plate - for the imposition of offset plates.
Printer SERAG. Later print, 2009. Medium resolution.
Format 21 x 14.3 cm, glued onto a wood panel 30 x 24 cm.
In very good condition.
Etiquette and annotations on the back.

Lee Friedlander, born in 1934, becomes, at a very young age, a freelance photographer for some.
magazines, but their photographic ambition is something else. It's thanks to the scholarship.
Guggenheim, that he will be able to begin his career as an artistic photographer.
Their first exhibition was mounted at the George Eastman House in Rochester in 1963.

He photographs the streets, the modern city, by mixing all kinds of elements, of
signs, posts, and display cases, and the inclusion of these elements within a framing
gives a certain confusion (intended) to these images.
He is also a true purist of photography: he only uses elements.
specific to the photo – framing, sharpness, flash... and leaves no imprint on any other media.

All his life he has worked with a Leica and a 35mm. It is only in his most
Recent ones that use the square format.