TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anton,Saul
AU  - Friedlander,Lee
TI  - Lee Friedlander - the little screens
T2  - Afterall
SN  - 9781846381584 (pbk.) :
U1  - 779'.092 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Afterall Books
KW  - Friedlander, Lee.
KW  - Photography, Artistic
KW  - Photography
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N2  - Lee Friedlander's The Little Screens first appeared as a 1963 photo-essay in Harper's Bazaar. 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 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
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