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Driving across most of the country’s fifty states in an ordinary rental car, master photographer Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield, and the side windows as picture frames within which to record reflections of this country’s eccentricities and ...
28 sty 2022 · America by car. by. Friedlander, Lee. Publication date. 2010. Topics. Friedlander, Lee, Landscape photography -- United States, Street photography -- United States, Automobiles -- United States -- Pictorial works, United States -- Pictorial works. Publisher.
Traversing the country in a rental car, the artist photographs the built and natural landscape directly from the driver’s seat. The car’s mirrors, doors, and windows act as frames for the images, which juxtapose steering wheels and dashboards with roadside bars, monuments, and mountain ranges.
These 35mm photographs directly foreshadow Friedlander’s lifelong preoccupation with America’s distinctive, visual landscape and the artist’s humorous and revelatory view of it from the driver’s seat.
Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country’s vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual “form” for making photographs.
America by Car. Lee Friedlander. D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2010 - Photography - 193 pages. Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of...
2 wrz 2010 · Lee Friedlander’s “America by Car,” opening Saturday at the Whitney Museum, consists of black-and-white photographs taken from inside cars.
