Fraenkel Gallery will host a public reception with Lee Friedlander and Joel Coen on Saturday, May 6, from 2-4pm. Luhring Augustine will host a reception with both artists in New York on Saturday, May 13.
Lee Friedlander's Framed by Joel Coen is an exhibition of Friedlander's photographs curated by the widely acclaimed filmmaker. Rather than focusing on a single subject or period, Coen's selection concentrates on Friedlander's singular approach to composition. Through the approximately 45 images in the exhibition Coen surveys the range of Friedlander's 60+ year career, bringing many lesser-known images into the equation. The selection evidences an unexpected affinity between Friedlander and Coen, both of whose work explores the sly power of images. A new hardcover publication, with an introduction by Coen and an afterword by the actor Frances McDormand, accompanies the exhibition.
Friedlander, Coen, and McDormand, long admirers of each other's work, met in the spring of 2022 at Friedlander's home in Rockland County, New York. During the day-long visit the artists studied hundreds of photographs, ultimately leading to the selection that constitutes the book and exhibition.
I was present when these two guys met for the first time and observed a familiarity that comes from their lifetimes of singular and eccentric visions... Neither would naturally refer to himself as an Artist. Yet they have honed their crafts over decades of practice, and those of us who cannot see the way they see have no other way to describe what they do but "art." --from the afterword by Frances McDormand
Coen's selection focuses on photographs that are dense and off-kilter, often bisected by stop signs and utility poles, car doors and windshields, trees and shadows. "As a filmmaker, I liked the idea of creating a sequence that would highlight Lee's unusual approach to framing--his splitting, splintering, repeating, fracturing, and reassembling elements into new and impossible compositions," Coen writes.
Image Credit: Sweden, 2005, gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]
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Lee Friedlander's Framed by Joel Coen is an exhibition of Friedlander's photographs curated by the widely acclaimed filmmaker. Rather than focusing on a single subject or period, Coen's selection concentrates on Friedlander's singular approach to composition. Through the approximately 45 images in the exhibition Coen surveys the range of Friedlander's 60+ year career, bringing many lesser-known images into the equation. The selection evidences an unexpected affinity between Friedlander and Coen, both of whose work explores the sly power of images. A new hardcover publication, with an introduction by Coen and an afterword by the actor Frances McDormand, accompanies the exhibition.
Friedlander, Coen, and McDormand, long admirers of each other's work, met in the spring of 2022 at Friedlander's home in Rockland County, New York. During the day-long visit the artists studied hundreds of photographs, ultimately leading to the selection that constitutes the book and exhibition.
I was present when these two guys met for the first time and observed a familiarity that comes from their lifetimes of singular and eccentric visions... Neither would naturally refer to himself as an Artist. Yet they have honed their crafts over decades of practice, and those of us who cannot see the way they see have no other way to describe what they do but "art." --from the afterword by Frances McDormand
Coen's selection focuses on photographs that are dense and off-kilter, often bisected by stop signs and utility poles, car doors and windshields, trees and shadows. "As a filmmaker, I liked the idea of creating a sequence that would highlight Lee's unusual approach to framing--his splitting, splintering, repeating, fracturing, and reassembling elements into new and impossible compositions," Coen writes.
Image Credit: Sweden, 2005, gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]
Fraenkel Gallery will host a public reception with Lee Friedlander and Joel Coen on Saturday, May 6, from 2-4pm. Luhring Augustine will host a reception with both artists in New York on Saturday, May 13.
Lee Friedlander's Framed by Joel Coen is an exhibition of Friedlander's photographs curated by the widely acclaimed filmmaker. Rather than focusing on a single subject or period, Coen's selection concentrates on Friedlander's singular approach to composition. Through the approximately 45 images in the exhibition Coen surveys the range of Friedlander's 60+ year career, bringing many lesser-known images into the equation. The selection evidences an unexpected affinity between Friedlander and Coen, both of whose work explores the sly power of images. A new hardcover publication, with an introduction by Coen and an afterword by the actor Frances McDormand, accompanies the exhibition.
Friedlander, Coen, and McDormand, long admirers of each other's work, met in the spring of 2022 at Friedlander's home in Rockland County, New York. During the day-long visit the artists studied hundreds of photographs, ultimately leading to the selection that constitutes the book and exhibition.
I was present when these two guys met for the first time and observed a familiarity that comes from their lifetimes of singular and eccentric visions... Neither would naturally refer to himself as an Artist. Yet they have honed their crafts over decades of practice, and those of us who cannot see the way they see have no other way to describe what they do but "art." --from the afterword by Frances McDormand
Coen's selection focuses on photographs that are dense and off-kilter, often bisected by stop signs and utility poles, car doors and windshields, trees and shadows. "As a filmmaker, I liked the idea of creating a sequence that would highlight Lee's unusual approach to framing--his splitting, splintering, repeating, fracturing, and reassembling elements into new and impossible compositions," Coen writes.
Image Credit: Sweden, 2005, gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]
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Lee Friedlander's Framed by Joel Coen is an exhibition of Friedlander's photographs curated by the widely acclaimed filmmaker. Rather than focusing on a single subject or period, Coen's selection concentrates on Friedlander's singular approach to composition. Through the approximately 45 images in the exhibition Coen surveys the range of Friedlander's 60+ year career, bringing many lesser-known images into the equation. The selection evidences an unexpected affinity between Friedlander and Coen, both of whose work explores the sly power of images. A new hardcover publication, with an introduction by Coen and an afterword by the actor Frances McDormand, accompanies the exhibition.
Friedlander, Coen, and McDormand, long admirers of each other's work, met in the spring of 2022 at Friedlander's home in Rockland County, New York. During the day-long visit the artists studied hundreds of photographs, ultimately leading to the selection that constitutes the book and exhibition.
I was present when these two guys met for the first time and observed a familiarity that comes from their lifetimes of singular and eccentric visions... Neither would naturally refer to himself as an Artist. Yet they have honed their crafts over decades of practice, and those of us who cannot see the way they see have no other way to describe what they do but "art." --from the afterword by Frances McDormand
Coen's selection focuses on photographs that are dense and off-kilter, often bisected by stop signs and utility poles, car doors and windshields, trees and shadows. "As a filmmaker, I liked the idea of creating a sequence that would highlight Lee's unusual approach to framing--his splitting, splintering, repeating, fracturing, and reassembling elements into new and impossible compositions," Coen writes.
Image Credit: Sweden, 2005, gelatin silver print, 20 x 16 inches (sheet) [50.8 x 40.6 cm]
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