The mind and the hand - Richard Benson, William Christenberry, William Eggleston

Dans cette série photographique, Lee Friedlander rend hommage à la camionnette, un mode de transport typiquement américain. Sans fioritures dans la forme comme dans la fonction, les camionnettes sont depuis longtemps le véhicule de choix des agriculteurs et des commerçants. Le photographe, dans son idiome plein d'esprit, a observé cet objet le plus utilitaire et le plus personnel dans son cadre d'origine : le bricolage cacophonique qui est le paysage social américain.

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The Human Clay - Volume 5, Workers

The Shadow knows

Signs

The saturation of our social landscape by photographs and photographers is apparent from any public point of view. Photography is arguably the most democratic of mediums, even more accessible today across culture and class than language. In some regards, this has been Lee Friedlanders most enduring subjectthe way that average citizens interact with the world by making pictures of it, as well as how those pictures and the pictures constructed for advertising or political purposes define the public space.In Lee Friedlander: The Peoples Pictures we see photographs spanning six decades, most of the geographic United States and parts of Western Europe and Asia. These pictures are uniquely Friedlander photographs: as much about whats in front of the camera as they are about the photographers lifelong redefining of the medium. Like his exploration of words, letters and numbers in the social landscape, these photographs of photographys street presence seem inevitable to Friedlanders vast visual orchestration of what our society looks like. But make no mistake, Friedlanders photographs are not objective documents, they are intentional, authored, playful, intelligent creations made through his unprecedented collaboration with time and place.Lee Friedlander (born 1934) has published more than 50 monographs since 1969, and has exhibited extensively around the world for the past five decades, including a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2005. Friedlander lives in New York.

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