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"The Little Screens" is a revered and influential body of early work by Lee Friedlander, but it has never before been brought together in its entirety. The book's title refers to the television screens housed in motel rooms and other nondescript rooms of anonymous character spread throughout the country during the 1960s. Each screen vividly transmits images of popular culture icons, political figures, or minor celebrities of the times. The environments are iconographic ghost-rooms filled with bland furniture-rooms without personality, rooms that could be, and are, anywhere and everywhere. "The Little Screens" and their environments weave a narrative of a peripatetic photographer moving through the landscape of 1960s America, and the melancholy, yet sometimes comic quality of life lived on the road. They provide a look at the 1960s as so many people saw it: beamed into their televisions and flickering across their living rooms. The book's preface was written by the legendary Walker Evans after he saw the photographs in 1963.
Foreword by Walker Evans. Walker Evans is a legendary American photographer best known for his iconic work for the WPA in the 1930s, as well as his collaboration with writer James Agee on the book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men", though his career spanned many decades. A major retrospective of his work was organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2000, generating several publications and spawning a new enthusiasm for his work.
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Lee Friedlander has had a distinguished career as a photographer. Among his many awards are a MacArthur Foundation Award, the grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and three Guggenheim Fellowships. He has published several books, among them "Self-Portrait," "American Musicians," "Letters From the People," and "The Desert Seen." He lives in New York State.
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...beautifully done and deserve[s] an audience... -- The New York Times Book Review, December 2, 2001–Andy Grundberg
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- PublisherFraenkel Gallery
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1881337111
- ISBN 13 9781881337119
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages96
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Edition limited to 2,000 copies. Glossy boards. 34 b&w photos. Foreword by Walker Evans. A clean, attractive copy. Seller Inventory # 011106
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Glazed pictorial paper covered boards with crystallographic dual-image affixed to front panel. As new. Preface by Walker Evans. A mint copy of this beautifully printed fascinating Lee Friedlander collection of television screen images. From the publisher: " 'The Little Screens' is a revered and influential body of early work by Lee Friedlander, but it has never before been brought together in its entirety. The book's title refers to the television screens housed in motel rooms and other nondescript rooms of anonymous character spread throughout the country during the 1960s. Each screen vividly transmits images of popular culture icons, political figures, or minor celebrities of the times. The environments are iconographic ghost-filled rooms filled with bland furniture, rooms without personality, rooms that could be, and are, anywhere and everywhere. The Little Screens and their environments weave a narrative of a peripatetic photographer moving through the landscape of 1960s America, and the melancholy, yet sometimes comic quality of life lived on the road. They provide a look at the 1960s as so many people saw it: beamed into their living rooms. The book's preface was written by the legendary Walker Evans after he saw the photographs in 1963.". Scarce. Size: Small Square Quarto. Seller Inventory # 028208
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. 33+pgs. Polished paper photo boards with TV screen with flickeing image, orange lettering on spine. Photographs by Lee Friedlander. Condition is NEAR FINE ; an almost mint copy. Rare item. Seller Inventory # 4248
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2001. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first and only printing. Signed by Friedlander. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated laminated paper-covered boards (with crystallographic dual-image tipped in to television-screen portion of the cover photograph), no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Lee Friedlander. Foreword by Walker Evans. 96 pp. with 34 duotone plates. 10 x 10 inches. This first edition was limited to 2000 hardbound copies. Out of print. From the publisher: "The Little Screens is a revered and influential body of early work by Lee Friedlander, but it has never before been brought together in its entirety. The book's title refers to the television screens housed in motel rooms and other nondescript rooms of anonymous character spread throughout the country during the 1960s. Each screen vividly transmits images of popular culture icons, political figures, or minor celebrities of the times. The environments are iconographic ghost-filled rooms filled with bland furniture -- rooms without personality, rooms that could be, and are, anywhere and everywhere. The Little Screens and their environments weave a narrative of a peripatetic photographer moving through the landscape of 1960s America, and the melancholy, yet sometimes comic quality of life lived on the road. They provide a look at the 1960s as so many people saw it: beamed into their living rooms. The book's preface was written by the legendary Walker Evans after he saw the photographs in 1963." Signed by Author. Images of the actual book will be provided upon request. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000010
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Price is net to all; promotional discounts do not apply. First edition, first and only printing. Signed in black ink on the front free endpaper by Friedlander. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated laminated paper-covered boards (with crystallographic dual-image tipped in to television-screen portion of the cover photograph), no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Lee Friedlander. Foreword by Walker Evans. 96 pp. with 34 duotone plates, beautifully printed by Meridian Printing, Rhode Island from separations made by Thomas Palmer. 10 x 10 inches. This first edition was limited to 2000 hardbound copies. Out of print. Scarce. Lee Friedlander's work is widely known for transforming our visual understanding of contemporary American culture. Known for passionately embracing all subject matter, Friedlander photographed nearly every facet of American life from the 1950s to the present. From factories in Pennsylvania, to the jazz scene in New Orleans, to the deserts of the Southwest, Friedlander's complex formal visual strategies continue to influence the way we understand, analyze, and experience modern American experience. Friedlander's work continues to influence photographic practice internationally, in part due to the heightened sense of self-awareness that is a trademark of so many of his photographs and in part because of his ability to embrace wide-ranging subject matter, always interpreting it in an elegance that hadn't existed prior to his work. As New in publisher's shrink-wrap (from Friedlander's personal archive; slit open for signature). From the publisher: "The Little Screens is a revered and influential body of early work by Lee Friedlander, but it has never before been brought together in its entirety. The book's title refers to the television screens housed in motel rooms and other nondescript rooms of anonymous character spread throughout the country during the 1960s. Each screen vividly transmits images of popular culture icons, political figures, or minor celebrities of the times. The environments are iconographic ghost-filled rooms filled with bland furniture -- rooms without personality, rooms that could be, and are, anywhere and everywhere. The Little Screens and their environments weave a narrative of a peripatetic photographer moving through the landscape of 1960s America, and the melancholy, yet sometimes comic quality of life lived on the road. They provide a look at the 1960s as so many people saw it: beamed into their living rooms. The book's preface was written by the legendary Walker Evans after he saw the photographs in 1963." Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 112005
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