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Friedlander, Lee. Self Portrait: Photographs by Lee Friedlander. Haywire Press, 1970.

Price: US$168.94 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Haywire Press, 1970. Softcover. Photographically illustrated wrappers. 8vo. Unpaginated [88pp]. First Edition, First Printing. Book Condition: Very Good. Some edge wear and rubbing to cover and spine, ownership inscription of Paul Hill on title page.

Seller: RRB Photobooks, Bristol, United Kingdom

Friedlander, Lee. SELF PORTRAIT: Photographs by Lee Friedlander. Haywire Press, New York, 1970.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: B087Z2WYLY Small oblong 4to, unpaginated, only about good in pictorial wraps. (covers quite shelf-rubbed and worn; some wear to tips; previous owner's small ink stamp to inside front cover; clean internally). Profusely illustrated with full-page b&w photographs. The first paperback edition of Lee Friedlander's first monograph (after a hardcover edition of 120 copies). SOLD AS IS, W.A.F.

Seller: Edward Ripp: Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.

Friedlander, Lee. Self Portrait. Haywire Press, New City, NY, 1970.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition, trade paperback, has a mild skew to the binding, bumps with slight creasing to the spine ends and corners, heavy rubbing with some spots and smudges to the covers, thin reading creases to the hinges with light shelfwear to the cover edges, minor finger-smudges to the edges of a few pages, some effaced bookseller marks to the upper corner of the title page, and very thin creasing near the fore edge of a few pages. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight, Good+ copy.

Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.

FRIEDLANDER Lee. Self Portrait. Haywire press, New York, 1970.

Price: US$178.20 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Un volume broché, 232 x 217 mm, pagination absente. Edition originale courante du premier livre de l'artiste. 42 photographies en noir. Parr & Badger vol. 1, p. 258. Exemplaire légèrement défraîchi.

Seller: Librairie L'Autre sommeil, BECHEREL, France

Friedlander, Lee. Self Portrait. Haywire Press, New City 1970, 1970.

Price: US$197.75 + shipping

Description: 8.5 in. x 9 in., Unnumbered pages, Wrappers, Some wear at spine else very good. Friedlander's first monograph First Edition edition. .

Seller: Dawson's Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Lee Friedlander. Self Portrait. Haywire Press, 1970.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: No marks. Light shelfwear. First edition of first Friedlander monograph. Owner name on inside of cover. Light shelfwear to moderate shelfwear.

Seller: FITZ BOOKS AND WAFFLES, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.

FRIEDLANDER, Lee. Self Portrait. Haywire Press, New York, 1970.

Price: US$201.57 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: New York, Haywire Press, 1970. Small oblong quarto (216 × 232 mm), [88] pages with 42 self-portrait illustrations. Pictorial card covers slightly creased and rubbed; an excellent copy. 'These self portraits span a period of six years and were not done as a specific preoccupation, but rather, they happened as a peripheral extension of my work. They began as straight portraits but soon I was finding myself at times in the landscape of my photography. I might call myself an intruder. At any rate, they came about slowly and not with plan but more as another discovery each time'.

Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Friedlander, Lee. Self Portrait. Haywire Press. First American edition, New York, 1970.

Price: US$201.57 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Forty-two influential self-portraits, predating the current trend by forty years; the photographer's first book. Pictorial wrappers. Mark on inside front cover where price sticker has been removed, else fine.

Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia

Lee Friedlander. Self Portrait. Haywire Press, New City, NY, 1970.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: soft cover. minor rubbing to exterior. clean. no markings or writing. no bumps, tears, chips. strong sewn binding.; unpaginated. b/w photos reproduced throughout. 120 copies of this first edition were hardbound, signed and contained a print. this copy is the first edition soft cover. Size: Square 8vo

Seller: art longwood books, Gloucester, MA, U.S.A.

Lee Friedlande. Lee Friedlander: Self-Portrait. Haywire Press, 1970.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A beautiful copy of the true first edition, signed by Friedlander. Friedlander focuses on the role of his own physical presence in his images. He writes: "At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings." Here readers can witness this progression as Friedlander appears in the form of his shadow, or reflected in windows and mirrors, and only occasionally fully visible through his own camera

Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.

FRIEDLANDER, Lee. Self Portrait. Haywire Press, New City, NY, 1970.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Small oblong softcover. Friedlander's self published first solo book preceded only by a collaboration with Jim Dine. This slim monograph collects 42 self-portraits of Friedlander, in many of which only his shadow or reflection appear. A clean near fine copy in photo-illustrated wrappers with some very minor wear. A much nicer than usual copy of a book that is very prone to wear. (Parr & Badger v1 258: Roth 198-199.).

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.

Lee Friedlander. Self Portrait. Haywire Press, 1970.

Price: US$250.19 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Contents in good condition, first four pages with small bend in lower corner; illustrated wraps fair, rubbed throughout, some creases on front and back covers.

Seller: Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada

Friedlander, Lee. Self Portrait. Haywire Press, 1970.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Description: Softcover, unpaginated, very good minus condition; moderate edgewear and rubbing to covers; small abrasion to front cover near bottom of spine; all pages have a small indent/crease at the bottom edge in the white border below the images; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra

Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Friedlander, Lee. Self Portrait: Photographs By Lee Friedlander. Haywire Press, New City, NY, 1970.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Thin, squarish (9" x 8 1/2"). Four very small spots on front cover, rubbing along cover edges and spine folds, and light overall rubbing of black rear cover; internally fine. Reproduction of B&W photographs taken over a period of six years by Friedlander.

Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, Canada

FRIEDLANDER, Lee. Lee Friedlander - Self Portrait. Haywire Press, New York, 1970.

Price: US$305.39 + shipping

Description: 1st printing. Square 4to in photo illustrated stiff glossy card covers, unpaginated, approx. 88pp on stiff paper, brief intro by Friedlander, mainly nicely reproduced full page photos printed one side only. This is the photographer's first monograph CONDITION: VERY GOOD+, a well preserved clean and tight unmarked copy (covers lightly rubbed, internally fine) ] __NOTE. Depending on destination, this item may require an extra payment for shipping insurance. If so, orders made by card will be completed only after you have approved the extra cost._ __To see more of our Photo books type DbbPHOTO in the Keywords search box._We Ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS

Seller: David Bunnett Books, London, United Kingdom

Friedlander, Lee. Self portrait. New City, New-York City, Haywire Press, 1970.

Price: US$318.44 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Broché, couverture photographique oblong, 210 x 235 mm. Introduction par le photographe, 88 pages pour 42 photographies n/b. Ref: Andrew Roth 198-199 / Parr & Badger I p. 258, M+M Auer 514, Attinger, Une bibliothèque p.94, Sinibaldi & Couturier 143.

Seller: La Chambre Noire, Lausanne, VD, Switzerland

FRIEDLANDER, Lee.. Self Portrait.. New York: Haywire Press, 1970, 1970.

Price: US$389.86 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing. This book contains a series of self-portraits taken over six years, wherein the photographer "does seem to be lurking or barging into his own pictures -- a hovering, disembodied Everyman, at once here and gone." Quarto. Original stiff paper wrappers, titles to spine in white, titles to front wrapper in white. With 42 black and white photographs. A very good copy, extremities just a little rubbed and worn.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Photography - Friedlander, Lee. Self Portrait (Inscribed). Haywire Press, New York, 1970.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Oblong 8vo. First edition of the photographer's first separate book. INSCRIBED on the title page. A good only copy with considerable wear and small creases to covers. Featured in Parr and Badger and a Roth 101 selection.

Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.

Lee Friedlander. Self Portrait. Haywire Press, New York, 1970.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Wrappers. Signed by the photographer on the title page. Photographer's first book. Very good but for significant wear to cover.

Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

FRIEDLANDER, Lee. Self Portrait: Photographs by Lee Friedlander (First Edition) [SIGNED]. Haywire Press, New City, New York, 1970.

Price: US$412.50 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by Friedlander. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and text (untitled preface) by Lee Friedlander. Designed by Friedlander and Marvin Israel. Unpaginated (88 pp.) with 42 plates plus the cover image (not reproduced inside the book), printed by the Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut, from duotone separations made by Richard Benson. 8-1/2 x 9-1/8 inches. Out of print. Scarce. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2004).] Lee Friedlander's work is widely known for transforming our visual understanding of contemporary American culture. Known for passionately embracing all subject matter, Friedlander photographed nearly every facet of American life from the 1950s to the present. From factories in Pennsylvania, to the jazz scene in New Orleans, to the deserts of the Southwest, Friedlander's complex formal visual strategies continue to influence the way we understand, analyze, and experience modern American experience. Friedlander's work continues to influence photographic practice internationally, in part due to the heightened sense of self-awareness that is a trademark of so many of his photographs and in part because of his ability to embrace wide-ranging subject matter, always interpreting it in an elegance that hadn't existed prior to his work. Near Fine (wear to the extremites, else Fine). Friedlander's Self-Portraits call attention to the complex, fractured and sometimes dissimulating interplay between various screens, shadows, reflections, lenses and the surfaces of the photographs themselves. Introducing this body of work, Friedlander wrote, "I might call myself an intruder." Following this, in Andrew Roth's Book of 101 Books Vince Aletti asserts, "Friedlander does seem to be lurking or barging into his own pictures -- a hovering, disembodied Everyman, at once here and gone. Like the ephemeral figures in nineteenth-century spirit photos, he appears as a shadow, a reflection, a pair of shoes, a barely discernible shape. Although there are a number of shots where Friedlander's head is clearly visible in a mirror or looms unmediated into the frame, none are conventional or in any sense flattering self-portraits.Mostly, however, he seems determined to remove himself from the frame -- to become not the subject of the picture but just another incidental bit of photographic phenomena, no more important that a shaft of sunlight or a shop window or a passing shadow." Signed by Author.

Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.

FRIEDLANDER, Lee.. Self Portrait.. New York: Haywire Press, 1970, 1970.

Price: US$422.35 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing. This book contains a series of self-portraits taken over six years, wherein the photographer "does seem to be lurking or barging into his own pictures - a hovering, disembodied Everyman, at once here and gone." Vince Aletti, Andrew Roth's Book of 101 Books Quarto. Original black and white printed wrappers, lettering to spine in white, to front in black. With 42 full page black and white photographs. Edges lightly rubbed, internally bright.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

FRIEDLANDER, Lee. Self Portrait [Signed first edition]. Haywire Press, New City, NY, 1970.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: 8.5 x 9 inches. Friedlander's first solo publication, self-published and preceded only by his 1969 collaboration with Jim Dine. Though this slim monograph collects 42 self-portraits of Friedlander, many of which show only his shadow or his reflection, it "is essentially a landscape work, full of those slightly menacing urban and suburban photographs by which he changed the vocabulary of late twentieth-century photography" (Parr & Badger 1:258). Roth 198-199. A very good plus copy in wrappers with a little soiling to the front panel and rubbing and wear to the rear panel that is primarily near the spine. Still a very nice copy of this important book First edition, signed by Friedlander on the title-page.

Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

Friedlander, Lee. Self Portrait. Haywire Press, New City (1970), 1970.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: 8 1/2 z 9 inches, unnumbered pages, wrappers, some wear, A small unassuming first monograph by this important contemporary photographer. First Edition edition. .

Seller: Dawson's Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Friedlander, Lee. Self Portrait. Haywire Press, (New City, New York), 1970.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: Oblong small 4to., unpag.; original pictorial wrappers. Nice copy of Friedlander's first book, designed by Marvin Israel. This copy signed by Friedlander on the title page. Faint rumple to title page; some spotting to front cover near spine; small MOMA price slicker discreetly affixed to inside front wrapper; extremities a bit rubbed, very good indeed.

Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

FRIEDLANDER, Lee.. Self Portrait.. New York Haywire Press self-published, 1970.

Price: US$544.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, signed in black ink on title page; oblong 4to (216 x 230 mm, 8½ x 9 in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset duotone, design by Friedlander and Marvin Israel, small pen mark to one page, light toning, minor wear, photo-illustrated wrappers, impression mark on upper wrapper, sticker ghost to inside cover, near-fine; [86]pp. signed copy of Friedlander's first solo book. Self Portrait comprises a series of urban and suburban scenes, into which Friedlander has included his reflection or shadow. He financed the publication of this book with the proceeds from his share of the sale of the portfolio version of Work from the Same House, naming his new imprint Haywire Press: 'I remembered that haywire was what farmers use to hold things together when they can't get the real thing. And that's just how that book got put together. Everybody I knew helped me.' The Book of 101 Books pp198-9; Books, Speclal Editions, and Portfolios 3; The Photobook: A History I, p258; The Open Book pp262-3.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

FRIEDLANDER, Lee. Self Portrait: Photographs by Lee Friedlander (First Edition) [SIGNED]. Haywire Press, New City, New York, 1970.

Price: US$577.50 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Price is net to all; promotional discounts do not apply. First edition, first printing. SIgned in ink by Friedlander. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and text (untitled preface) by Lee Friedlander. Designed by Friedlander and Marvin Israel. Unpaginated (88 pp.) with 42 plates plus the cover image (not reproduced inside the book), printed by the Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut, from duotone separations made by Richard Benson. 8-1/2 x 9-1/8 inches. Out of print. Scarce. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2004).] Lee Friedlander's work is widely known for transforming our visual understanding of contemporary American culture. Known for passionately embracing all subject matter, Friedlander photographed nearly every facet of American life from the 1950s to the present. From factories in Pennsylvania, to the jazz scene in New Orleans, to the deserts of the Southwest, Friedlander's complex formal visual strategies continue to influence the way we understand, analyze, and experience modern American experience. Friedlander's work continues to influence photographic practice internationally, in part due to the heightened sense of self-awareness that is a trademark of so many of his photographs and in part because of his ability to embrace wide-ranging subject matter, always interpreting it in an elegance that hadn't existed prior to his work. Fine, a Near Mint copy (from Friedlander's personal archive). Friedlander's Self-Portraits call attention to the complex, fractured and sometimes dissimulating interplay between various screens, shadows, reflections, lenses and the surfaces of the photographs themselves. Introducing this body of work, Friedlander wrote, "I might call myself an intruder." Following this, in Andrew Roth's Book of 101 Books Vince Aletti asserts, "Friedlander does seem to be lurking or barging into his own pictures -- a hovering, disembodied Everyman, at once here and gone. Like the ephemeral figures in nineteenth-century spirit photos, he appears as a shadow, a reflection, a pair of shoes, a barely discernible shape. Although there are a number of shots where Friedlander's head is clearly visible in a mirror or looms unmediated into the frame, none are conventional or in any sense flattering self-portraits.Mostly, however, he seems determined to remove himself from the frame -- to become not the subject of the picture but just another incidental bit of photographic phenomena, no more important that a shaft of sunlight or a shop window or a passing shadow." Signed by Author.

Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.

FRIEDLANDER, Lee. Self Portrait: Photographs by Lee Friedlander (First Edition) [SIGNED]. Haywire Press, New City, New York, 1970.

Price: US$660.00 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: Price is net to all; promotional discounts do not apply. First edition, first printing. SIgned by Friedlander. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs and text (untitled preface) by Friedlander. Designed by Friedlander and Marvin Israel. Unpaginated (88 pp.) with 42 plates plus the cover image (not reproduced inside the book), printed by the Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut, from duotone separations made by Richard Benson. 8-1/2 x 9-1/8 inches. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2004) and in Peter Galassi, Friedlander. (New York: MoMA, 2005), "Books, Special Editions, and Portfolios" (pp. 444-459), #3.] Lee Friedlander's work is widely known for transforming our visual understanding of contemporary American culture. Known for passionately embracing all subject matter, Friedlander photographed nearly every facet of American life from the 1950s to the present. From factories in Pennsylvania, to the jazz scene in New Orleans, to the deserts of the Southwest, Friedlander's complex formal visual strategies continue to influence the way we understand, analyze, and experience modern American experience. Friedlander's work continues to influence photographic practice internationally, in part due to the heightened sense of self-awareness that is a trademark of so many of his photographs and in part because of his ability to embrace wide-ranging subject matter, always interpreting it in an elegance that hadn't existed prior to his work. As New (from Friedlander's personal archive). Friedlander's Self-Portraits call attention to the complex, fractured and sometimes dissimulating interplay between various screens, shadows, reflections, lenses and the surfaces of the photographs themselves. Introducing this body of work, Friedlander wrote, "I might call myself an intruder." Following this, in Andrew Roth's Book of 101 Books Vince Aletti asserts, "Friedlander does seem to be lurking or barging into his own pictures -- a hovering, disembodied Everyman, at once here and gone. Like the ephemeral figures in nineteenth-century spirit photos, he appears as a shadow, a reflection, a pair of shoes, a barely discernible shape. Although there are a number of shots where Friedlander's head is clearly visible in a mirror or looms unmediated into the frame, none are conventional or in any sense flattering self-portraits.Mostly, however, he seems determined to remove himself from the frame -- to become not the subject of the picture but just another incidental bit of photographic phenomena, no more important that a shaft of sunlight or a shop window or a passing shadow." Signed by Author.

Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.

Friedlander, Lee.. Self Portrait.. Haywire Press, New City, 1970.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First trade edition. (after 100 hardcover copies and 20 artist's copies with prints) SIGNED by Lee Friedlander on title page. Near fine in oblong pictorial printed wrappers. (un-paginated) -88pp. ) (8 3/4" X 9 1/4") (Light traces of foxing to margins in text. ) 42 b&w plates. The photographer's FIRST solo book. ; 8 3/4" X 9 1/4"; 88 pages

Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

FRIEDLANDER, Lee. Self Portrait. Haywire Press, New York, 1970.

Price: US$10000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition, hardcover issue. Oblong quarto. Full cloth with applied gelatin silver print. Fine in fine slipcase. This is one of 20 copies with two original prints: 1, "Tallahassee, Florida. 1969" mounted on the front board of the book, and 2. "Wilmington, Delaware. 1965" mounted and bound in following the title page. Inscribed beneath the image by Friedlander using a nickname: "To Bub with love, Sunny. Nov. 1972. a/c." The artist R.B. Kitaj's copy. A significant association between two American artists. Friedlander published a volume devoted exclusively to portraits of Kitaj: *Kitaj* (San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery 2002).

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

FRIEDLANDER, Lee. Self Portrait: Photographs by Lee Friedlander (Special Limited Edition with 2 Vintage Gelatin Silver Prints). Haywire Press, New City, New York, 1970.

Price: US$10000.00 + shipping

Condition: As New

Description: Please inquire. Pricing and availability are subject to change (price is net to all; promotional discounts do not apply). PAYMENT: by check or wire transfer (please inquire about payment by credit card). SHIPPING NOTE: due to size and weight, additional shipping fees apply (calculated at actual cost). Special limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies, plus 20 artist's copies, with two vintage gelatin silver prints: 1) "Tallahassee, Florida. 1969" (cover image of the trade edition). Image 3-7/16 inches x 5-3/16 inches, mounted on cloth cover of the book; and 2) "Wilmington, Delaware. 1965" (pl. 23 in the trade edition), mounted and bound in following the title page. Signed and numbered in pencil on recto of mount beneath image. Image 6-7/8 x 4-3/8 inches; mount 8-1/2 x 9 inches. Edition is housed in a gray paper-covered slipcase. ABOUT THE BOOK: First edition, first printing. Signed by Friedlander. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards, with gelatin silver print mounted on the cover; no dust jacket as issued (for the Special Limited Edition). Photographs and text (untitled preface) by Friedlander. Designed by Friedlander and Marvin Israel. Unpaginated (90 pp. including bound-in print) with 42 plates plus the cover image (not reproduced inside the book), printed by the Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut, from duotone separations made by Richard Benson. 8-1/2 x 9-1/8 inches. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2004).] [See: Peter Galassi, Friedlander. (New York: MoMA, 2005), "Books, Special Editions, and Portfolios" (pp. 444-459), #4.] Lee Friedlander's work is widely known for transforming our visual understanding of contemporary American culture. Known for passionately embracing all subject matter, Friedlander photographed nearly every facet of American life from the 1950s to the present. From factories in Pennsylvania, to the jazz scene in New Orleans, to the deserts of the Southwest, Friedlander's complex formal visual strategies continue to influence the way we understand, analyze, and experience modern American experience. Friedlander's work continues to influence photographic practice internationally, in part due to the heightened sense of self-awareness that is a trademark of so many of his photographs and in part because of his ability to embrace wide-ranging subject matter, always interpreting it in an elegance that hadn't existed prior to his work. As New (from Friedlander's personal archive). Friedlander's Self-Portraits call attention to the complex, fractured and sometimes dissimulating interplay between various screens, shadows, reflections, lenses and the surfaces of the photographs themselves. Introducing this body of work, Friedlander wrote, "I might call myself an intruder." Following this, in Andrew Roth's Book of 101 Books Vince Aletti asserts, "Friedlander does seem to be lurking or barging into his own pictures -- a hovering, disembodied Everyman, at once here and gone. Like the ephemeral figures in nineteenth-century spirit photos, he appears as a shadow, a reflection, a pair of shoes, a barely discernible shape. Although there are a number of shots where Friedlander's head is clearly visible in a mirror or looms unmediated into the frame, none are conventional or in any sense flattering self-portraits.Mostly, however, he seems determined to remove himself from the frame -- to become not the subject of the picture but just another incidental bit of photographic phenomena, no more important that a shaft of sunlight or a shop window or a passing shadow." Signed by Author.

Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.