SFMOMA
151 3rd St
415.357.4000
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Lee Friedlander, Las Vegas, Nevada, © 2005 Lee Friedlander
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Feb 23, 2008 – May 18, 2008
Tuesdays–Wednesdays (11am–5:45pm)
Thursdays (11am–8:45pm)
Fridays–Sundays (11am–5:45pm)
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$12.50
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Over the last half-century, photographer Lee Friedlander has made a career of cataloging America's urban — and increasingly suburban — landscape. This survey offers a fresh take on the photographer's estimable contribution to American image-making. Treading in the footsteps of giants like Walker Evans, Eugène Atget, and Robert Frank, Friedlander trains his Leica on austere back alleyways, paved lots, reflective storefront windows, and the gauche jumble of skyscrapers, public sculpture, and oppressive signage that makes up the modern city. Despite the obvious aesthetic debt he owes his predecessors, Friedlander's images are unmistakably his own; the artist's shadow often acts as his signature image.
