New Orleans, Louisiana

1968

Lee Friedlander

Associated Names
Lee Friedlander

Artist, American, born 1934

This is a photograph of a reflection in a shop window. The image captures a person holding a camera in the glass, with a vintage car parked on the street in the background. A building with horizontal windows and two street lamps can also be seen. Another car is passing by the scene. The photograph is in black and white, contributing to the mood and texture of the scene, which plays with reflections and transparency, blurring the boundaries between outside and inside the glass.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Trellis Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 17.6 x 27 cm (6 15/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
    mount: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.22.23

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

NGA purchase, 2001.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1970

  • Lee Friedlander: Self Portrait. New City, 1970: pl. 22. (2d ed. New York, 1998: pl. 24).

1989

  • Like a One-Eyed Cat: Photographs by Lee Friedlander, 1956-1987. Exh. cat. Seattle Art Museum. New York, 1989: pl. 14.

1992

  • Lee Friedlander. Exh. cat. IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez. Valencia, 1992: 60.

1998

  • Lee Friedlander: Retratos. Exh. cat. Instituto de America de Santa Fe. Granada, 1998: 71.

2005

  • Friedlander. Exh. cat. The Museum of Modern Art. New York, 2005: back cover and pl. 9.

Inscriptions

all on mount: upper right verso stamped in black ink: K77; center left verso in graphite: 24 (circled); center left verso in black felt tip pen: 56/13; center verso: artist's stamp with graphite addition: Lee Friedlander; center verso in graphite: B

Wikidata ID

Q64156488

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