Cincinnati, Ohio

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Cincinnati, Ohio

Artist Lee Friedlander (American, born 1934)

Date1963

DimensionsH: 11 in. (27.9 cm); W: 7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm)

MediumGelatin silver print.

ClassificationPhotographs

Object number

2005.280

Not on View

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.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Refraction/Reflection, April 20-September 2, 2012.

Toledo Museum of Art, Werner Pfeiffer Selects, Feb. 13-May 10, 2015.