Lee Friedlander: The American Monument (with Fourteen American Monuments)
Publisher: New York: The Eakins Press Foundation, 1976
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0871300435
Condition: Fine / No dust jacket as issued
Item #: 106601
$1,500.00
Specifics
First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Dark green cloth, with title stamped in black and gilt on cover and spine, post-bound and assembled with removable metal pins (no dust jacket as issued). Photographs by Friedlander. Essay by Leslie George Katz. Designed by Leslie George Katz, Friedlander, and Richard Benson. Cover and typography by Lance Hidy. 170 pp., with 213 plates printed on fine heavy stock uncoated paper by the Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut, from halftone separations made by Richard Benson, in an edition limited to 2000 copies. Binding by George Wieck, Robert Burlen and Son, Massachusetts. Special binding was designed so that individual sheets could be removed and exhibited. 12 x 17 inches.
[Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006). and in Peter Galassi, Friedlander. (New York: MoMA, 2005), "Books, Special Editions, and Portfolios" (pp. 444-459), #7.]
Condition
Fine.
Description
[A copy of Fourteen American Monuments by Lee Friedlander is also included with the book: New York: Eakins Press, 1977. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated wrappers (booklet). First edition, first printing. 13 pp. 6 x 9 inches. This publication contains a selection of 14 black and white reproductions from The American Monument.]
From the publisher: "In an environment dominated by menacing speed, instability, advertising and television, the American monument plays a meditative role. A grace of intention shines through the oft times awkward alliance of efforts that produced them. They are redeemed by the confidence they express in the worth of the act memorialized. In this album the viewer and the viewed hold each other in balance. A world buried alive in our midst is unearthed to us. The photographer has brought it to us to see."
