Galax, Virginia, 1962

Details

LEE FRIEDLANDER (B. 1934)
Galax, Virginia, 1962
gelatin silver print, printed mid-1980s
signed, titled, dated in pencil, stamped photographer's '52 South Mountain Road, New City, N.Y.' credit and reproduction limitation in ink (verso); credited, titled, dated on exhibition label (frame backing board)
image: 8 ½ x 12 7⁄8 in. (21.5 x 32.7 cm.)
sheet: 11 x 13 7⁄8 in. (28 x 43.4 cm.)

Provenance

Christie's, New York, April 25, 2006, lot 238;
acquired from the above sale by present owner.

Literature

Walker Evans, 'The Little Screens,' Harper's Bazaar, vol. 96, no. 2, February 1963, pp. 126-129.
Rod Slemmons, Lee Friedlander: Like a One-Eyed Cat: Photographs 1956-1987, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1989, pl. 29.
Lee Friedlander, The Little Screens, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2001, pls. 7 and 32.
Peter Galassi et al., Friedlander, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2005, p. 94, pl. 75.
Lee Friedlander, Lee Friedlander: 1960s-2000s, Rat Hole Gallery, 2008, cover

Exhibited

San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, Real to Real: Photographs from the Trevor Traina Collection, June 9, 2012 - September 16, 2012.

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Lot Essay

This photograph is the cover of Lee Friedlander: 1960s-2000s (Rat Hole Gallery, 2008)

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