Lot 179
  • 179

Lee Friedlander b. 1934

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Description

  • Lee Friedlander
  • '15 photographs by lee friedlander'
(New York: Double Elephant Press, 1973, an edition of 75 numbered copies and 15 artist proofs), a portfolio of 15 photographs, each mounted on hand-made paper, signed and numbered '54/75' by the photographer in pencil on the mount, 1962-71, printed in 1973; together with the embossed title page, plate list, and introduction by Walker Evans.  Folio, reflective-cloth clamshell box, no. 54 in a total edition of 90 (Mirrors and Windows, p. 98; Pantheon, pls. 1, 3, 8, 9, 16, and 21; Little Screens, pl. 33; American Photography, 1890-1965, pp. 241-2 and 247; Reflections in a Glass Eye, pl. 14; George Eastman House, Taschen, pp. 288-9; Cleveland Museum of Art, p. 174 and 176-7; Rosenblum, World History, p. 526)

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner from the photographer, circa 1973

Catalogue Note

Plates are as follows:

T.V. in hotel room - Galax, Virginia 1962

Bed in window - Cincinnati, Ohio 1963

Women in window - New York City 1963

Man in window - New York City 1964

Plane over bull - Kansas City, Missouri 1965

Flag - New York City 1965

Shadow - New York City 1966

Party - New York City 1968

Filling Station - rearview mirror - Hillcrest, New York 1970

Lee Av - Butte, Montana 1970

Car & fence & bush - San Diego, California 1970

Street scene, trees & houses - Hollywood, California 1970

Statue - New Jersey 1971

House, trailer, sign, cloud - Knoxville, Tennessee 1971

Street scene - man, pole, etc. - Chicago 1972