Lee Friedlander - Portraits (HC, DJ, VERY FRESH COPY) - 1985

“This book is dedicated to the memory of my very dear friend Garry Winogrand."
- Lee Friedlander -

"More than any other artist of his generation (Lee Friedlander) has shaped the face of contemporary photography."
- Andy Grundberg, The New York Times -

WONDERFUL EARLY PHOTOBOOK, FULL OF EXCELLENT PORTRAITS from 1985 (!) -
by famous American photographer Lee Friedlander.

WITH ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET.

EXCELLENT, VERY FRESH CONDITION.

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"A brilliant innovator, Lee Friedlander is famous as the master of the seemingly artless photograph of the street. Out of these mundane surroundings come complex images filled with visual jokes, subliminal connec-tions, gentle perceptions -forcing us to see a new world in the commonplace.
Lee Friedlander Portraits presents a little-known aspect of the photographer's work, but the portraits have the wry, warm, offbeat quality that is essential Fried-lander. The sitters are seen in familiar, usually simple, settings, but an instinctive photographic vision has caught them in unusual perspectives or lighting, with fleeting expressions or casual postures that are richly suggestive of context, past and future. Many are of children: tender, yet allowing them their astonishing directness. Many are of friends: Garry Winogrand shortly before his death, in an unforgettably affecting image of father and daughter. Some are of the famous:
Walker Percy, a camera angle creating a corkscrew of introspection. All, in their striking variety, bear the imprint of the remarkable Lee Friedlander."
(text from the front flap of the book)

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A New York Graphic Society Book. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. 1985. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 280 x 260 cm. 96 pages. 73 black and white photos (2 photos of Garry Winogrand at the beginning, following 71 numbered photos). Photos: Lee Friedlander. Design and typography by Howard I. Gralla. Foreword: R. B. Kitaj. Text in English.

Condition:
Book and dustjacket in excellent, very fresh and flawless condition; clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing. Slightest trace of use; no remarkable flaws or defects. Overall very fine condition.

Great, early Lee Friedlander title with original dustjacket - in wonderful fresh condition.

R. B. KITAJ, born in Cleveland, studied art at Cooper Union and in Europe. His work was the subject of a major retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., in 198l, and he exhibits regularly in the United States at the Marlborough Gallery, New York. Married to artist Sandra Fisher, he has lived for many years in England.

"Lee Friedlander, born 1934, is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban 'social landscape', with many of his photographs including fragments of store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, posters and street signs. His work is characterized by its innovative use of framing and reflection, often using the natural environment or architectural elements to frame his subjects. Over the course of his career, Friedlander has been the recipient of numerous awards and his work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries worldwide (Museum of Modern Art, New York. Corcoran Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)."
(Wikipedia)