Atlanta, 1962

Details

LEE FRIEDLANDER
Atlanta, 1962
gelatin silver print
credit stamp on reverse of mount
6 3/8 x 9¾in. (16.2 x 24.7cm.)

Provenance

Gift of the artist to the present owner, late 1960s.

Literature

'Lee Friedlander', Contemporary Photographer, vol.4, no.4, 1963, p.57; Exhibition catalogue, Lee Friedlander: The Little Screens, San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery, 2001, pl.3.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

In his accompanying comment to Friedlander's photographic essay 'The Little Screens' in the February 1963 issue of Harper's Bazaar, Walker Evans noted that '...the wan reflected light from home television boxes casts an unearthly pall over the quotidian objects and accouterments [sic] we all live with...here, then, from an expert hand, is a pictorial account of what TV-screen light does to rooms and the things in them. The human denizens of the rooms are purposely left out. In this atmosphere of eclipse, the sense of citizen presence is actually increased.' (pp.126-29)

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