LEE FRIEDLANDER: NUDES
Lee Friedlander, Ingrid Sischy [afterword]
Lee Friedlander, Ingrid Sischy [afterword]: LEE FRIEDLANDER: NUDES. New York: Pantheon Books, 1991. First edition. Oblong quarto. Red embossed cloth stamped in gold. Photographically printed dust jacket. 108 pp. 84 tritone plates. INSCRIBED by Friedlander on half-title page. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
11 x 10 book with 108 pages and 84 tritone plates beautifully printed on heavy coated paper by Franklin Graphics, Providence, Rhode Island, from separations by Richard Benson and Thomas Palmer. Ink inscription on half-title page: To Charles G. / Lee Friedlander.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Nude photographs by Lee Friedlander, and an Afterword by Ingrid Sischy. Sequence by John Szarkowski with Mark Holborn and Lee Friedlander. Designed by Catherine Mills. A young, nude model named Madonna graces the cover and several interior pages.
A carefully sequenced book of eighty-four nudes chosen from Friedlander's fifteen years of working with a number of female models. From the dustjacket: " "Over the last fifteen years, Friedlander has been working with a number of models to create his own way of seeing and photographing the female nude. Little of this work has ever appeared. The photographs are both highly intimate and coolly detached. The frequently surprising perspectives are balanced by the mundane backdrops of ordinary life, the real domestic interiors of the models. He appears to have taken a primary theme of Western art and re-invented it." There is no mistaking the fact that these are late twentieth century photographs, different in attitude from the nudes of Weston or Brandt or Bravo. A young Madonna was one of Friedlander's models.