Lee Friedlander Photographs Frederick Law Olmsted Landscapes
| Copyright Holder (Photos) | Lee Friedlander |
| Publisher | D.A.P. |
| Copyright Holder (Text) | Lee Friedlander |
| Typeset by | Katy Homans |
| Managing Editor | Todd Bradway |
| Printed by | Meridian Printing |
| Designed by | Katy Homans |
| Separations by | Thomas Palmer |
| About/Subject | Frederick Law Olmsted |
| Format | Hardback |
| Location | United States |
| Copyright | 2007 |
| Pages / Font | 84 pages |
| ISBN | 978-1-933045-73-3 |
| Notes | Hardcover. First edition, first printing. 84 pages with 89 Triton-Fotos. Hardcover in linen without jacket (as issued)., with tipped in photo to front cover. A selection of the photographs in this book were included in the exhibition: "Lee Friedlander: a Ramble in Olmsted Parks" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 22 January-11 May, 2008. A natural chronicler of all things uniquely American, photographer Lee Friedlander here puts his lens to the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), designer of many of this country`s most iconic public landscapes and the father of North American landscape architecture. Olmsted was responsible for a staggering number of America`s greatest parks, including the Niagara reservation (North America`s oldest state park), Washington Park, the Biltmore Estate, the U.S. Capitol building landscape and entire parkway systems in Buffalo and Louisville. His most famous work remains New York City`s Central Park, a pioneering egalitarian gesture that, at the time, was very unusual for its ready accessibility. This book compiles 89 photographs made by Friedlander in Olmsted`s public parks and private estates. The collection of rich tritones celebrates the complex, idiosyncratic picture-making of one of the country`s greatest living photographers, and also arrives upon the 150 year anniversary of Olmsted`s 1858 design for Central Park. Rambling across bridges and through open meadows and dense undergrowth, Friedlander locates a pure pleasure in Olmsted`s designs, attesting to the durability of Olmsted`s vision. |
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