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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

" Mannequin " by LEE FRIEDLANDER

Lee Friedlander is one of the rare artists in any medium to have sustained a body of influential work over five decades. To make the series Mannequin, the American photographer returned to the hand-held 35-mm camera that he used in the earliest decades of his career. Friedlander strolled along the streets of New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco, focusing on storefront windows and reflections which speak to display notions of sex, fashion and consumerism, while recalling Eugene Atget's surreal photographs of Parisian windows made one hundred years earlier. These radical new compositions suggest photographs that have been torn up and pasted back together again in random ways.

Lee Friedlander began photographing the American social landscape in 1948. The range of his work - portraits, nudes, still lives, and studies of people at work - is anchored in a vivid and far-reaching vision of the American scene. His work can be seen in the collections of the Museum of Modern art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of art, among many others.

Made over the past three years, Mannequin is on exhibit at Fraenkel Gallery for the first time.

Lee Friedlander

Mannequin