Lee Friedlander: New Mexico |  | Author: Emily Neff
Creators: Lee Friedlander, Andrew Smith
Publisher: Radius Books
Category: Book
List Price: $60.00
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Seller: Andrew Smith Gallery
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 974,414
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 74
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 11.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 1934435112
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.99789
EAN: 9781934435113
ASIN: 1934435112
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
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Product Description
Pioneering photographer Lee Friedlander has been making images of what he calls "the American social landscape" for more than 50 years. His influence reaches across several generations--through pivotal exhibitions such as The Museum of Modern Art's 2005 retrospective, and through his own specific feel for the book format, evident from the first (self-published) monograph of 1970, Self-Portrait, to recent volumes such as Apples & Olives, Cherry Blossom Time in Japan and Frederick Law Olmsted Landscapes.
Friedlander has been visiting Albuquerque, Santa Fe and the Northern New Mexico environs since the late 1960s, and this new volume of work presents a sequence of images made during his travels in the region between the mid-90s and the present. Armed with his signature Hasselblad camera and wandering the back roads in an assortment of rental cars, Friedlander has journeyed from the Plaza of Santa Fe to the adobe strewn neighborhood barrios and out into the gorgeous, high-altitude desert that surrounds this fabled city. In Lee Friedlander: New Mexico, we see the same attentive curiosity that we've come to expect from this American master who is so adept at creating unity out of diverse shapes and tones in the two-dimensional picture plane.
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 Change January 14, 2009
E. Klatt (CA USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Sometimes a reviewer will lack depth perception because he/she has one eye closed; critical when the response is concerning the visual arts. If you presume that a highly refined sensibility made a deliberate choice to included every element within the entirety of the frame, whether at the time of exposure or during the editing process, a potential reviewer should then begin a response by giving the benefit of the doubt as to why a particular image lacks one's sense of organizational quality. Remember that Friedlander has always been a rule breaker and consequently asks you to broaden your point of view. It's nice to think that even someone with strong opinion might find some room to grow in a way to include appreciation of an artist who continues to challenge our ways of seeing.
Beautiful Images of the Southwest August 16, 2009
W. Rosen (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is my favorite Lee Friedlander book because I love looking at images of the desert and the southwest and these are just amazing. The book pages are large and shows off the images well and the printing is well done.
Lee Friedlander an idol of mine from beginning to end? December 6, 2009
Jack4Spratt
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
digression: found an Ansel Adams book, I'd seen him lecture in NYC and knew him as other than Iconic images: Photographs of the Southwest--canonized by publication is a curse we photo caperers loath--sight unseen I would have stolen it yet it was only $16.00 at Coas. So it follows that I will in contemplativeness view Lee's prayer too two 2 or to tutu:)
 Not Prime Friedlander December 5, 2008
AHW (South Florida)
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
All of the photographs appear to be taken with the Hasselbald super wide camera and much of the elegance of
Lee Friedlander's vision has disappeared in a blizzard of
random details floating in a square frame. Only for completest that must have every Friedlander book.
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