America by Car by Lee Friedlander

Made over the last decade and in a majority of the country’s fifty states, America by Car is a vast compendium of the country’s eccentricities and obsessions at the turn of the century. All of the approximately fifty photographs that comprise the exhibition were made from the inside of a car, most often of the rental variety. Friedlander transforms the car’s windows into deliberate picture frames. A rearview mirror becomes a tool reflecting unexpected, fragmented juxtapositions. The combination of Friedlander’s optics married to the square format that has dominated his work in recent years produces radical foreshortening and extremely detailed views, both urban and rural. This is not, however, the first time Friedlander has used these framing devices. Elements of automotive architecture have appeared throughout the artist’s work since the 1960s. Yet Friedlander’s new photographs make compositional use of mirrors, windows, steering wheels and rental car leatherette in ways that both heighten and magnify contemporary America’s unique visual identity.
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Un fotolibro extraordinario, un auténtico manifiesto visual que revolucionó totalmente y para siempre el mundo de la fotografía. Agradecemos la realización de este contenido y la difusión de la obra del gran maestro Lee Friedlander. Les invitamos a leer el artículo que escribimos sobre su exposiciòn retrospectiva en nuestro blog fotomaniabcn.blogspot.com/2022/03/lee-friedlander-en-el-kbr-mapfre-la.html