Laurence Miller Gallery is pleased to present its fifth Lee Friedlander one-person exhibition, Urban/SubUrban, from November 3 through December 23, 2005.  The exhibition features 15 vintage prints from the early 1960’s into the mid-1970’s, a period when Friedlander made his mark not only on the New York photography scene, but on the international art world as well. 

The exhibition sketches a major shift in Friedlander’s work. As Peter Galassi has written in his recent monumental book FRIEDLANDER, “His work of the 60’s is hard-nosed and urban, a forceful assertion of the photographer’s power to shape experience into a picture.  By the early ‘70s it is gentle and pliant, as if the viewer’s gaze, once decisively fixed and blinkered, were now free to roam in search of passing delights.”

Classic images from the 1960’s include Galax, Virginia, 1962, in which a child’s face stares back at us from a tv at the foot of a motel bed; Jersey City, 1963, depicting an agitated dog alone in a store window; New York City, 1964, where we spy through a window at a man sleeping at his desk; and from the early 1970’s his marvelous picture of a cloud floating over a street sign from Knoxville, Tennessee, 1971; from his American Monument series, Frank Luke, Jr.,Capitol Grounds, Phoenix, Arizona, 1974; and a tranquil landscape France, 1972, in which branches and trees playfully intertwine, a strategy he explored frequently over the past 30 years.

Mobile, Alabama, 1969
11 x 14" vintage silver print
Signed, titled, dated on verso

Idaho, 1972
11 x 14" vintage silver print
Signed, titled, dated on verso

Jersey City, NJ, 1963
6 5/8 x 9 7/8" vintage silver print
Signed on mount verso

France, 1972
11 x 14" vintage silver print
Signed, titled, dated verso

Frank Luke, Jr., Capitol Grounds
Phoenix, AZ, 1974
11 x 14" vintage silver print
Signed, titled, dated verso

Midwestern, U.S., 1966
11 x 14" vintage silver print
Signed, titled, dated verso

Galax, Virginia, 1962
7 x 11" vintage silver print
Signed, titled, dated verso

New York City, 1964
7 x 11" vintage silver print
Signed, titled, dated verso

Knoxville, TN, 1971
7 x 11" vintage silver print
Signed, titled, dated verso

Route 9W, New York, 1969
11 x 14" vintage silver print
Signed, titled, dated verso

Untitled, c.1968
6 5/8 x 10" vintage silver print
From the portfolio Photographs
and Etchings, 1969 # 13/75
Portfolio mount 18 1/8 x 13 1/2"

Kiener Memorial Fountain
and Runner Statue, Gateway Mall
St. Louis, MO, 1972
11 x 14" vintage silver print
Signed, titled, dated verso