Lee Friedlander
'Knoxville'
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December 18, 07:40 PM GMT
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3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Lee Friedlander
b. 1934
'Knoxville'
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in pencil and with the photographer's '44 South Mountain Rd., New City, New York' studio stamp on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1971, printed in the 1970s
image: 6½ by 9¾ in. (16.5 by 24.8 cm.)
frame: 14½ by 18½ in. (36.8 by 47 cm.)
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2007
Double Elephant: Lee Friedlander (Göttingen, 1974), pl. 14
Lee Friedlander Photographs (New York, 1978), pl. 72
Rod Slemmons, Like a One-Eyed Cat: Photographs by Lee Friedlander, 1956-1987 (Seattle Art Museum, 1989), p. 62
Peter Galassi, Friedlander (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005), p. 159
Lee Friedlander (Madrid: Fundación MAPFRE, 2021), p. 169
“I let my eye do the thinking. There is something elusive out there and what you are doing is trying to get it on film” (Like a One-Eyed Cat: Photographs by Lee Friedlander 1956-1987, p. 115).
In Lee Friedlander’s photographs, there is no such thing as coincidence. Friedlander embraces improvisation, staying receptive to unexpected compositions. Knoxville fascinates on a street sign and a cloud, whose serendipitous symmetries resemble an ice cream cone.
Other prints of 'Knoxville' are held in the collections of The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
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