Like a One-Eyed Cat. Photographs by Lee Friedlander 1956-1987
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1989. 1st Edition. Large quarto, publisher's stiff photo-illustrated paper wraps.
153 tritone plates of portraits, landscapes, street scenes and interiors, published on the occasion of a major traveling retrospective (1989-1991) of thirty years' worth of Friedlander's "irreverent and skeptical" work, organized by the Seattle Art Museum. "Just when we develop a taste for Friedlander's photographs or think we can identify a style, a hallmark, a common tool for understanding, he changes. He refuses to follow conventions even if he established them himself" (from the essay by Seattle Art Museum assistant curator of photography Rod Slemmons). With a bibliography and list of exhibitions. Published simultaneously in hardcover and paperback, as here. Original MoMA price sticker to lower wrap. Light rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Very good. Item #11245
$75.00