Lee Friedlander: The American Monument (Deluxe Limited Edition with 10 Vintage Gelatin Silver Prints)
Publisher: New York and New City, New York: The Eakins Press Foundation and Haywire Press, 1976
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New / No dust jacket as issued
Item #: 112035
$55,000.00
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Two-volume deluxe edition of 50 signed and numbered copies, plus 10 artist's copies marked A/C, with ten loose vintage gelatin silver prints. The prints are over-matted and can easily be removed. The matts are post-bound into Volume II (similar to Volume I) and can be removed to show individually. Each of the ten prints is signed and numbered in black ink on recto, in the white border below the image by Friedlander. Images 6-7/16 x 9-5/8 inches, whether horizontal or vertical; sheets 11 x 14 inches; matts 11-9/16 x 14-1/2 inches. Both volumes are housed in a beige cardboard slipcase.
ABOUT THE BOOK (Volume I): First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Beige cloth-covered boards (for the deluxe limited edition), with title stamped in gilt on quarter brown leather 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. 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), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).] [See: Peter Galassi, Friedlander. (New York: MoMA, 2005), "Books, Special Editions, and Portfolios" (pp. 444-459), #9.]
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.
Condition
As New (from Friedlander's personal archive).
Description
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."
