America by Car: Landscapes Framed by Rental Cars
source: http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/america-by-car-landscapes-framed-by-rental-cars/
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“America by Car” is an acclaimed series of photographs by the master photographer Lee Friedlander. Driving through most of the country’s fifty states in ordinary rental cars, he took his black-and-white, square-format photographs entirely from the interior of the rental cars. Friedlander employed the brilliantly simple idea of using the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield, and the side windows as picture frames within which to record reflections of this country’s eccentricities and obsessions at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Friedlander’s collection of photographs isn’t arranged in a manner that provides an “On the Road” style narrative. Instead, he groups images by subject, not geography: monuments, churches, houses, factories, ice cream shops, plastic Santas, roadside memorials. Every snapshot includes and employs the vehicle’s interior and exterior elements as a means of fracturing and multiplying the image, providing a submersive sensory experience, like the one in which a driver might engage when glancing out at or studying something other than the road. You also can recognize the keen sense of humor at play in many of the juxtapositions: a chain-link palm tree standing in the desert, a photo of a sign offering a photo-op in a quarter mile. Finally, there’s the massive glory of disorder, a kind of celebration of roadside nonsense.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs, a wonderful slide show and two videos.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/america-by-car-landscapes-framed-by-...
Friedlander’s collection of photographs isn’t arranged in a manner that provides an “On the Road” style narrative. Instead, he groups images by subject, not geography: monuments, churches, houses, factories, ice cream shops, plastic Santas, roadside memorials. Every snapshot includes and employs the vehicle’s interior and exterior elements as a means of fracturing and multiplying the image, providing a submersive sensory experience, like the one in which a driver might engage when glancing out at or studying something other than the road. You also can recognize the keen sense of humor at play in many of the juxtapositions: a chain-link palm tree standing in the desert, a photo of a sign offering a photo-op in a quarter mile. Finally, there’s the massive glory of disorder, a kind of celebration of roadside nonsense.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution photographs, a wonderful slide show and two videos.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/america-by-car-landscapes-framed-by-...
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