Lee Friedlander: Signs - (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Traffic signs, sandwich boards and posters: Friedlander's portrait of words in the world</strong></p><p>For more than five decades, Lee Friedlander has repeatedly been drawn to the signs that inscribe the American landscape, from hand-lettered ads to storefront windows to massive billboards. Incorporating these markings with precision and sly humor, Friedlander's photographs record a kind of found poetry of desire and commerce. <p/>Focusing on one of the artist's key motifs, <i>Lee Friedlander: Signs</i> presents a cacophony of wheat-paste posters, Coca-Cola ads, prices for milk, road signs, stop signs, neon lights, movie marquees and graffiti. The book collects 144 photographs made in New York and other places across the US, and features self-portraits, street photographs and work from series including <i>The American Monument</i> and <i>America by Car</i>, among others. Illegible or plainspoken, crude or whimsical, Friedlander's signs are an unselfconscious portrait of modern life. <p/><b>Lee Friedlander</b> (born 1934) began photographing in 1948. Among his many monographs are <i>Sticks and Stones</i>, <i>Self-Portrait</i>, <i>Letters from the People</i>, <i>Cherry Blossom Time in Japan</i> and <i>At Work</i>, among others. His work was included in the influential 1967 exhibition <i>New Documents</i> at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by John Szarkowski. Among the most important living photographers, Friedlander is in the collections of museums around the world.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>...Friedlander also brings out an emotional quality to tedious, daily warnings in our urban environment, like "No Parking" and "Everything Must Go!--Matthew Sedacca "New York Times"<br><br>A superbly produced, coffee-table sized volume of some of Lee Friedlander's best work to date, Lee Friedlander: Signs is especially recommended for personal and professional American Photography collections, and would make an enduringly valued Memorial Fund acquisition for community, college, and university library collections.--Able Greenspan "Midwest Book Review"<br>
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