“Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen' is split between concurrent presentations at FraenkelGallery in San Francisco and Luhring Augustine in New York City.
What’s there left to say about Lee Friedlander? If a picture is worth a thousand words, he’s said it all. The photographer, born in 1934, is one of the living legends of American photography, influential for his seminal urban landscapes and candid portraits. Shooting since the age of 14, Friedlander refers to photography as a habit more than an art practice, a reflexive response to being in the world.
Coen has also sequenced a slideshow of all 70 pictures, screening in both galleries. Coen’s take on Friedlander’s work is, as the exhibition title suggests, all about framing – and not the kind that goes around Friedlander’s photographs, but rather the ones that appear within them. The slideshow – which Coen calls a “flipbook” – presents a unique synthesis of the two artists’ mediums. The pictures cycle at varying speeds, some flashing on-screen for an instant, others lingering the equivalent of a long shot, the artificial click of a shutter sounding off every time the image changes, evoking an old-school slide machine or film crank. Individual film cells are, of course, also referred to as “frames.
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