Lee Friedlander

Galax, Virginia

1962, printed 1973

A bed headboard in the foreground with a small television showing a close-up face in the background.
A bed headboard in the foreground with a small television showing a close-up face in the background.

Not on view

Date
1962, printed 1973

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Overall: 18 × 22 in. (45.7 × 55.9 cm) Sheet: 15 3/8 × 20 in. (39.1 × 50.8 cm) Image: 5 3/4 × 8 13/16 in. (14.6 × 22.4 cm)

Accession number
2003.343.3

Edition
26/75

Credit line
Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press

Rights and reproductions
Courtesy of Freankel Gallery, San Francisco

API
artworks/15305

Part of a series:
15 Photographs by Lee Friedlander
14 works

A city sidewalk with a large pole in the foreground and a storefront sign reading MAX'S.
A faded triangular road sign stands beside a sidewalk in front of a house and parked trailer.
Chain-link fence topped with barbed wire runs alongside a sidewalk with a trimmed bush.
A person reflected in a vehicle window at a gas station with parked cars nearby.
A deserted road with a tall utility pole casting a long shadow beside an empty sidewalk.
View through vehicle window bars showing a two-way arrow sign and a distant statue.
A straight sidewalk runs between trees and small houses with a tall palm tree in the distance.
Several people crowded closely in a dim bar, a hand holding a drink with a straw.
A quiet city sidewalk with a utility pole, hotel signs, and a small airplane overhead.
Person wearing a fur-collared coat walks down a city street with a dark head-shaped shadow on their back.

Lee Friedlander
110 works in the collection, 10 exhibitions

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