About The Book
In the 1950s Lee Friedlander arrived in New York and began work as a house photographer for Atlantic Records. Over the next two decades, he would create some of their most famous album covers, and his picture style – including portraits of Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Ruth Brown, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and countless others – became forever associated with that golden era of American music. This book is Friedlander’s tribute to the great musicians of the post-war years. Publisher’s Info
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About The Artist
Lee Friedlander was born in 1934 in Aberdeen, Washington. In 1948 he began to photograph seriously and by the 1960s had become widely recognized for his all-encompassing portrayals of the American social landscape – a term he coined. Friedlander’s influential work has been the subject of many seminal exhibitions, including New Documents and Mirrors and Windows, both organized by John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art, and more than 50 books, including Self Portrait (1970), The American Monument (1976), Factory Valleys (1982), Sticks and Stones (2004) and America By Car (2010) and Chain Link (2017).
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Specifics
Lee Friedlander: American Musicians ( D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 1998) | 272 pages.
Source: https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781564660565.
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