Lee Friedlander: Cars and The New Cars
Lee Friedlander (born 1934, Aderdeen, WA; active New York, NY), Detroit, 1963. Gelatin silver print; 21.6 x 32.7 cm (image), 27.8 x 35.5 cm (sheet). Museum purchase, gift of Elizabeth S. and Robert J. Fisher, Class of 1976 (2011-110)
Princeton University Art Museum
Lee Friedlander's restless eye is nowhere in stronger evidence than in his photographs of cars in the American scene. Highlighted here are unique prints from a recently rediscovered project of late 1963. Asked by Harper's Bazaar to produce a pictorial feature on the next year's models from Detroit, Friedlander set his shiny subjects in vigorously unglamorous places: gas stations, parking lots, and even used car lots. The magazine opted not to publish these puzzle-portraits of a Pop Art landscape; they are exhibited for the first time here, on loan from the collection of Randi and Bob Fisher.
