Lee Friedlander: Factory Valleys: Ohio and Pennsylvania (Special Limited Edition with One Vintage Gelatin Silver Print)
Publisher: New York and New City, New York: Callaway Editions IV and Haywire Press, 1982
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0935112057
Condition: As New / No dust jacket as issued
Item #: 112038
$3,000.00
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Special limited edition of 70 signed and numbered copies, plus 5 artist's copies, with one vintage gelatin silver print "Pittsburgh, PA, 1979" (pl. 2 in the trade edition), mounted and bound in before the book's last leaf. Signed and numbered in pencil on recto of mount. Image 6-1/8 x 9-1/8 inches; mount 10-3/4 x 10-1/2 inches.
ABOUT THE BOOK: First edition, first printing. Signed in black ink on the first page by Friedlander. Hardcover. Moss-green cloth-covered boards (for the special edition), with title stamped in gilt on cover and quarter black leather spine (no dust jacket as issued for the special edition). Photographs by Friedlander. Afterword by Leslie George Katz. Includes a list of plates. Designed by Nicholas Callaway and Anne Kennedy. Typography by Leslie Miller and Crosby Typographers. Unpaginated (82 pp. including bound-in print), with 62 plates exquisitely printed in 300-line offset lithography on fine matte art paper by the Meriden Gravure Company, Connecticut, from halftone negatives made by Richard Benson. 11-1/4 x 11-1/4 inches. This regular cloth edition was limited to 1,000 unnumbered, signed copies. [See: Peter Galassi, Friedlander. (New York: MoMA, 2005), "Books, Special Editions, and Portfolios" (pp. 444-459), #18.]
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
Considered by many (including the artist), to be Friedlander's best book! From the publisher: "In 1979, Friedlander was commissioned by the Akron Art Museum to document the industrial area of the Ohio River Valley. Over the course of the following year, he traveled in Ohio and Pennsylvania, photographing the towns, cities, factories, and workers. The result is not only a stunning reportage of the industrial heartland of America, but also an insightful portrait of the contemporary American social landscape, seen with Friedlander's unique blend of formal brilliance, elliptical wit, and acute perception. As Leslie Katz states in the afterword, 'Not since the Great Depression has a series of images shown the factory world with the clarity that this book does.'"
