{"id":1113,"date":"2013-12-27T10:49:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T10:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2013-12-30T08:37:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T08:37:28","slug":"lee-friedlander-america-by-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kimknoppers.nl\/index.php\/2013\/12\/lee-friedlander-america-by-car\/","title":{"rendered":"America By Car – Lee Friedlander"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Commissioned by
\nFoam<\/a><\/p>\n

Artist<\/strong>
\nLee Friedlander<\/a><\/p>\n

Date<\/strong>
\n13 September – 11 December 2013<\/p>\n

Foam proudly presents a solo exhibition by the American photographer Lee Friedlander\u00a0(1934, US). This exhibition features the series\u00a0America by Car<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The New Cars 1964<\/em>. The automobile has come to symbolize the American dream and the associated urge for freedom. It is therefore no surprise that cars play a central role in both series, now receiving their first showing in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

Road Trip<\/strong>
\nAmerica by Car<\/em>\u00a0documents Friedlander’s countless wanderings around the United States over the past decade. In this he follows a trail laid down by numerous photographers, film makers and writers like Robert Frank, Stephen Shore and Jack Kerouac. Friedlander nevertheless succeeds in giving the theme of the American road trip his own very original twist, using the cars’ windscreens and dashboards to frame the familiar American landscape, as well as exploiting the reflections found in their wing and rear view mirrors. It is a simple starting point which results in complex and layered images that are typical for Friedlander’s visual language.<\/p>\n

He also has a sharp eye for the ironic detail. He makes free use of text on billboards and symbols on store signs to add further meaning to his work. His images are so layered that new information continues to surface with every glance, making\u00a0America by<\/em>\u00a0Car<\/em>\u00a0a unique evocation of contemporary America.
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\n<\/em><\/strong>Car portraits<\/strong>
\nThe New Cars 1964<\/em>\u00a0is a much older series. Friedlander had been commissioned byHarper’s Bazaar<\/em>\u00a0to photograph all the new models of automobile introduced in 1964. Rather than placing them centrally and showing them to best advantage, Friedlander decided to set the cars in the most banal of locations, in front of a furniture store or in a scrap yard for instance. Exploiting reflections, available light and unusual perspectives, his cars are almost completely absorbed into the street scene. Although they were rejected at the time by the magazine’s editorial board on the grounds that the images were not attractive enough, the pictures were put away in a drawer and since forgotten. Friedlander however recently rediscovered this series.\u00a0The New Cars 1964<\/em>\u00a0has since become a special historical and social document and has in its own right become part of Friedlander’s impressive oeuvre.<\/p>\n

Fifty-year career<\/strong>
\nLee Friedlander was born in the US in 1934. In a career extending across 5 decades Friedlander has maintained an obsessive focus on the portrayal of the American social landscape. His breakthrough in the eyes of the wider public came with the\u00a0New Documents<\/em>\u00a0exhibition at the MoMA in 1967, where his work was presented alongside that of Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand. Friedlander accumulated numerous awards during his career, including the MacArthur Foundation Award and three Guggenheim Fellowships. He also published more than twenty books. His work has been shown at many venues around the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the MoMA in New York, San Francisco’s SFMOMA, the MAMM in Moscow and the National Museum of Photography in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Timothy Taylor Gallery, London.<\/em><\/p>\n

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