Whitney Museum of American Art
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Lee Friedlander: America By Car
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Sep 4, 2010 – Nov 28, 2010
Wednesdays–Thursdays (11am–6pm)
Fridays (1–9pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (11am–6pm)
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- Price
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$18
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“An early giant of new American photography, Friedlander's iconic project of photographing the nation's roads from behind the wheel of a rental proves evergreen. The style of the new cars, homogeneous and sleek, shows more evidence of time's passing than the lone pines, diner signs, and folksy pop art that line his route.”
Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill
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Driving across most of the country’s fifty states in an ordinary rental car, master photographer Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield, and the side windows as picture frames within which to record reflections of this country’s eccentricities and obsessions at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
- The Whitney
