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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Lee Friedlander

Galax, Va

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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Lee Friedlander

b. 1934

Galax


gelatin silver print, signed, titled and dated in pencil and with the photographer's '52 South Mountain Rd., New City, N. Y.' studio and copyright stamps on the reverse, framed

image: 8⅝ by 13 in. (21.9 by 33 cm.)

frame: 15⅜ by 19⅜ in. (39 by 49 cm.)

Executed in 1962, printed later.

Janet Borden Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2005 by the present owner

Berlin, me Collectors Room Berlin, Through the Looking Glass, April - May 2012 

Berlin, me Collectors Room Berlin, The Moment Is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection, September 2018 - January 2019

Lee Friedlander and Walker Evans, 'The Little Screens,' Harper's Bazaar, February 1963, p. 127

John Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 14

John Szarkowski, Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1978), p. 98

Paris - New York - Tokyo (Tsukuba, 1985), pl. 206

Lee Friedlander (Paris: Centre National de la Photographie, 1987), pl. 1

Rod Slemmons, Like a One-Eyed Cat: Photographs by Lee Friedlander 1956-1987 (Seattle Art Museum, 1989), pl. 29

Jill Quasha, The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs (New York, 1991), pl. 67

Peter Galassi, American Photography 1890-1965 from The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 1995), p. 247

Tom E. Hinson, Catalogue of Photography: The Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, 1996), p. 174

Therese Mulligan and David Wooters, eds., Photography from 1839 to Today, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (Cologne, 2000), p. 658

Lee Friedlander: The Little Screens (San Francisco, 2001), pl. 32

Sylvia Wolf, Visions from America: Photographs from The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001 (New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002), p. 82

Peter Galassi, Friedlander (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005), pl. 75

The Moment Is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection (Berlin: me Collectors Room Berlin, 2019), p. 89 (this print)

Lee Friedlander (Madrid: Fundación MAPFRE, 2020), p. 72

Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection (New York, 2021), pp. 220 and 414