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Nashville

1963
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In the early 1960s, Friedlander made a small series of photographs of television sets while traveling across America on two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships and on editorial assignment for several popular men's magazines. The witty, often ironic pictures provide intuitive commentary on the then-new medium as "the plug-in drug"; most were made in an appropriately modern, artificial space-a motel room-which is at once bedroom, living room, and theater.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Nashville
  • Artist: Lee Friedlander (American, born Aberdeen, Washington, 1934)
  • Date: 1963
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: Image: 9 1/4 × 6 1/8 in. (23.5 × 15.6 cm)
    Sheet: 11 × 7 in. (27.9 × 17.8 cm)
    Mat: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
    Framed: 17 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (43.8 × 36.2 cm)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1995
  • Object Number: 1995.168.2
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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