Cincinnati, Ohio
Artist: Lee Friedlander (American, born 1934)
Date: 1963
Dimensions:
H: 11 in. (27.9 cm); W: 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm)
Medium: Gelatin silver print.
Classification: Photographs
Object number: 2005.280
Label Text:“I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally borne and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.” --Lee Friedlander
In Friedlander’s aesthetic, a window display can become a satirical commentary or, as in this case, a surreal vision. In this stellar example of Friedlander’s ability to see visual juxtapositions, the reflections on the glass combine and overlap with the window display, putting Friedlander’s own image ‘in bed,’ while the cityscape looms overhead and the fluorescent light fixture appears, in perfect perspective, to illuminate the street outside of the window.
In Friedlander’s aesthetic, a window display can become a satirical commentary or, as in this case, a surreal vision. In this stellar example of Friedlander’s ability to see visual juxtapositions, the reflections on the glass combine and overlap with the window display, putting Friedlander’s own image ‘in bed,’ while the cityscape looms overhead and the fluorescent light fixture appears, in perfect perspective, to illuminate the street outside of the window.
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