SIGNED Lee Friedlander The American Monument Gravure Photographs Limited Ed 1976

Description: Lee Friedlander The American Monument1976 Original Edition Limited Edition of 2000 Copies SIGNED Lee Friedlander The American Monument. Photographs by Lee Friedlander. Eakins Press, New York, 1976. First edition. Original edition. Hardcover. 213 pages. Oblong folio. Limited edition of 2000 copies. SIGNED by Lee Friedlander on the second free endpaper. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt and black. Post-and-screw binding, designed so that, theoretically, individual plates can be removed and displayed. No jacket as issued. 213 offset plates with separations by Richard Benson. Very Good. Large-format and designed to look and feel like a photo album. The printing by the Meriden Gravure Company, on heavy stock paper, is sumptuous, and Friedlander’s editing is brilliant.' (Parr and Badger) Typically, the monument is off in the 'distance or somewhere off to the side, obscured by a road sign, a trash can, a telephone pole or foliage. Maybe Friedlander deflects attention from the monuments so that we can see the larger picture: the continuity of present and past, the pointlessness of memorializing history without ever understanding or absorbing it.' (Roth 101) Meticulous gravure plates of statues, plinths, columns, obelisks, tablets, and carved rocks from halftone negatives. Probably the most important title in the Friedlander cannon. Writing in Roth, et. al., The Book of 101 Books, Vince Aletti describes The American Monument as "almost maniacally inclusive, rounding up everything from Plymouth Rock to a plaque commemorating the Pony Express in Salt Lake City and treating them with the same nonchalance. The doggedness of Friedlander's quest is at once astounding and hilarious...History stalks the landscape at every turn." A brilliant book, conceptually ambitious in the manner of the New Topographic school of Adams and Baltz, but with a deadpan wit that is Friedlander's own." In an environment dominated by menacing speed, instability, advertising and television, the American monument plays a meditative role. A grace of intention shines through the oft times awkward alliance of efforts that produced them. They are redeemed by the confidence they express in the worth of the act memorialized. In this album the viewer and the viewed hold each other in balance. A world buried alive in our midst is unearthed to us. The photographer has brought it to us to see."--the publisher Light wear to the boards. Some discoloration to the top and side edges of the front board. Some light soiling. Scuffing to the back cover. Rubbing to the spine. Light soiling to the fore edges. Internally, quite nice. Beautiful clean images printed in gorgeous gravure. Scarce. SIGNED Lee Friedlander. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE

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