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Lee Friedlander: The Jazz People of New Orleans [SIGNED]

Publisher: New York: Pantheon Books, 1992
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0679416382
Condition: As New / As New
Item #: 112170

$200.00

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First edition (first American edition, simultaneously published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, London), first printing. Signed by Friedlander. Hardcover. Full red cloth-covered boards with title debossed on cover and spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Friedlander. Afterword by Whitney Balliett. Edited by Friedlander and Mark Holborn. Designed by Katy Homans, New York. 120 pp., with 94 plates, printed by Amilcare Pizzi, Milan, from duotone separations made by Richard Benson and Thomas Palmer. 9-1/9 x 11-1/4 inches. This first edition was limited to 10,000 cloth copies.

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: "This book reflects the passionate interest the author has in music, especially the musicians of New Orleans whom he has been photographing since 1957. New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, was once home to such legends as Louis Armstrong and King Joe Oliver. Friedlander has photographed most of them, musicians like Manuel 'Fess' Manetta, who was playing with bands before World War I and who tried to teach Louis Armstrong to play with two trumpets at once. Here are Johnny St. Cyr, George 'Kid Sheik' Cola, Sweet Emma Barrett, Isidore Barbarin and Roosevelt Sykes, blues singers and guitarists Robert Pete Williams and Snooks Eaglin. From the portraits we move out into the streets, to the marching bands like Young Tuxedo and Eureka, following Friedlander's eye to the edge of funerals, until, finally, we are immersed in the rhythm of the city itself. Many of Friedlander's subjects are encountered in an afterword by Whitney Balliett, America's foremost writer on jazz, who describes a visit he made to the city in the mid-sixties. The Jazz People of New Orleans is a remarkable testament, by a virtuoso photographer, to a city whose musical tradition is at the heart of American culture."