Lee Friedlander
Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Artist Lee Friedlander (American, born 1934)American, born 1934

CultureAmerican

Titles

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Date1969

Place depictedSanta Fe, New Mexico, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 6 3/8 × 9 5/8 in. (16.2 × 24.4 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 7/8 in. (27.6 × 35.2 cm)
Mount: 10 7/8 × 13 7/8 in. (27.6 × 35.2 cm)

Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores

Object number76.271

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Target Collection of American Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionAttracted to the openness of the snapshot, artists in the 1950s began to draw on qualities of the vernacular aesthetic that gave them license to break basic rules of photographic practice. Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, following others like Robert Frank, explored cities and traveled the country with handheld cameras. Their style of street photography exploited the haphazard or generic accidents of the amateur—blurred or out-of-focus imagery, off-kilter horizon lines, awkward cropping, double exposure, and the jarring inclusion of their own shadow. Friedlander framed his photograph on a jumble of posts, with signs blocking not only each other but also the people walking on the street.
Provenance[The Cronin Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited "Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures",
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston December 3 - February 25, 2007
Austin Museum of Art May 19 - August 12, 2007
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi June 5 - August 24, 2008

“In A Snap: The Art of Vernacular Photography,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 12, 2014–February 22, 2015.

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