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Author Anton, Saul, author.

Title Lee Friedlander : the little screens / Saul Anton
Published London : Afterall Books, 2015
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press

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Description 1 online resource (95 pages) : illustrations
Series One work
One work.
Contents 1. The Family Hearth; 2. Faces and Screens; 3. Picture and Apparatus; 4. Photo-Book-Archive; 5. Story of the Eye; 6. Death and Sex, Endlessly; Endnotes; Other titles in the One Work series
Summary Lee Friedlander's 'The Little Screens' first appeared as a 1963 photo-essay in Harper's Bazaar, with commentary by Walker Evans. Six untitled photographs show television screens broadcasting eerily glowing images of faces and figures into unoccupied rooms in homes and motels across America. As distinctive a portrait of an era as Robert Frank's 'The Americans', 'The Little Screens' grew in number and was not brought together in its entirety until a 2001 exhibition at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. Friedlander (b. 1934) is known for his use of surfaces and reflections--from storefront windows to landscapes viewed through car windshields -- to present a pointed view of American life. The photographs that make up The Little Screens represent an early example of this photographic strategy, offering the narrative of a peripatetic photographer moving through the landscape of 1960s America that was in thrall to a new medium. In this astute study, Saul Anton argues that The Little Screens marked the historical intersection of modern art and photography at the moment when television came into its own as the dominant medium of mass culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 7, 2016)
Subject Friedlander, Lee -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Friedlander, Lee fast
Subject Photography, Artistic.
art photography.
COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems.
Photography, Artistic
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Friedlander, Lee. Little screens.
LC no. 2015487465
ISBN 9781846381614
1846381614
9781846381607
1846381606
Other Titles Little screens