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Lee Friedlander: Playing for the Benefit of the Band: New Orleans Music Culture [SIGNED]

FRIEDLANDER, Lee, DODDS, Warren "Baby"

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Art Gallery and Yale University Press, 2013
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780300204407
Condition: New / No dust jacket as issued
Item #: 112288

$150.00

Specifics

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First edition, first printing. Signed in black ink on the title page by Friedlander. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards, no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Lee Friedlander. Introduction by Warren "Baby" Dodds. Designed by Katy Homans. 207 pp., with 202 plates printed by Meridian Printing, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, from tritone separations made by Thomas Palmer. 9-5/8 x 11 inches.

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

New (from Friedlander's personal archive).

Description

From the publisher: "Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) first visited the birthplace of jazz in 1957, and immediately set about photographing the aging pioneers of the art form. His love of the music and the people of New Orleans drew him back to the city, and the relationships he formed over time gave him intimate access to a scene that forged one of America’s most original artistic traditions. A revised and expanded edition of his 1992 monograph The Jazz People of New Orleans, Playing for the Benefit of the Band features over 200 photographs taken by Friedlander between 1957 and 1982, many of which are published here for the first time. Storied figures such as Duke Ellington and Mahalia Jackson have been captured by Friedlander’s disarming lens, and Sweet Emma Barrett, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Johnny St. Cyr, and other luminaries are seen in their homes and the back rooms in which they gathered to play. Also included are photographs of the city’s second-line parades, whose jubilant dancing has long been a defining aspect of New Orleans jazz culture."