New Orleans

1968

Lee Friedlander

Associated Names
Lee Friedlander

Artist, American, born 1934

This is a photograph of a street scene reflected in a window. The image includes a classic car parked on the street, a building with a grid of windows, and a streetlight. In the reflection, the interior of a room is visible with a wooden frame and a reflective glass surface creating a layered effect. A person is partially seen, appearing to take a photograph or peering into the building from outside. The composition captures the juxtaposition between the exterior street scene and the interior reflected through the shop window, merging inside and outside spaces in a single frame.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Stephen G. Stein

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.8 × 28.1 cm (7 3/8 × 11 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.9 × 35.3 cm (11 × 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2020.29.67

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco); Stephen G. Stein, Washington, DC, December 2004; gift to NGA, 2020.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, center in graphite: Lee Friedlander; center stamped in black ink: This photograph is not released for publication / or for commercial use of any kind. For permission / communicate with Lee Friedlander. 52 South / Mountain Road, New City, N. Y. 10956 / © LEE FRIEDLANDER; by artist, bottom center in graphite: New Orleans 1968; bottom center: 56-13; bottom right: 69; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: LF. 5031.4

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