Lee Friedlander - Photographs New York Monday, April 9, 2018 | Phillips

Photographs

New York Auction 9 April 2018

  • Provenance

    Laurence Miller Gallery, New York

  • Exhibited

    Photography & the City: The Evolution of an Art and a Science, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., 1968

  • Catalogue Essay

    The Photography & the City label on the reverse of this photograph’s mount refers to the exhibition of that name held at the Arts and Industries building of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., in 1968. The exhibition was designed by Charles and Ray Eames and explored the co-development of photography, as an art and a science, and the urban environment. It combined historical images from the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress with work by 20th-century photographers including Lee Friedlander, Alfred Stieglitz, Berenice Abbott, Dorothea Lange and others.

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Lee Friedlander

Kansas City, Missouri

1965
Gelatin silver print.
6 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. (16.2 x 24.4 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, annotated 'printed 1960's' in pencil, credit, copyright credit, two reproduction limitation stamps and a 'Photography & the City' label, all on the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $11,250

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New York Auction 9 April 2018