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Lee Friedlander : the little screens
- Title
- Lee Friedlander : the little screens / Saul Anton.
- Author
- Anton, Saul
- Publication
- London : Afterall Books, 2015.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Friedlander, Lee.
- Description
- 99 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- Lee Friedlander's 'The Little Screens' first appeared as a 1963 photo-essay in Harper's Bazaar, with commentary by Walker Evans. Six untitled photographs show television screens broadcasting eerily glowing images of faces and figures into unoccupied rooms in homes and motels across America. As distinctive a portrait of an era as Robert Frank's 'The Americans', 'The Little Screens' grew in number and was not brought together in its entirety until a 2001 exhibition at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. Friedlander (b. 1934) is known for his use of surfaces and reflections--from storefront windows to landscapes viewed through car windshields -- to present a pointed view of American life. The photographs that make up The Little Screens represent an early example of this photographic strategy, offering the narrative of a peripatetic photographer moving through the landscape of 1960s America that was in thrall to a new medium. In this astute study, Saul Anton argues that The Little Screens marked the historical intersection of modern art and photography at the moment when television came into its own as the dominant medium of mass culture.
- Series Statement
- One work
- Uniform Title
- One work.
- Alternative Title
- Little screens
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes a facsimile reproduction of The little screens : a photographic essay / by Lee Friedlander ; with a comment by Walker Evans, as printed in Harper's bazaar, February 1963 (pages 8-11).
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- MFX (Friedlander) 15-5812
- ISBN
- 9781846381584
- 1846381584
- LCCN
- 2015487465
- OCLC
- 917377218
- Author
- Anton, Saul, author.
- Title
- Lee Friedlander : the little screens / Saul Anton.
- Publisher
- London : Afterall Books, 2015.
- Distributor
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- One workOne work.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Friedlander, Lee. Little screens.
- Research Call Number
- MFX (Friedlander) 15-5812