Lee Friedlander, Desert Seen (Signed)
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Signed
Signed by Friedlander on half-title page, inscribed to "gwen" in silver marker. Desert Seen marks a pivotal turn in Lee Friedlander's practice, deepening his engagement with landscape photography in the 1990s. Shot over five years in the Sonoran Desert, this body of work trades urban density for the wild, tangled terrain of the American Southwest—without abandoning Friedlander's signature visual complexity. The images are dense and bristling, where branches, cacti, and shadows collide in compositions that resist romanticism. Rather than depicting the desert as empty or serene, Friedlander renders it overflowing with tension, structure, and disorder. A follow-up to Cherry Blossom Time in Japan (1993), and a precursor to later volumes such as Sticks and Stones and America by Car, Desert Seen stands as a vital chapter in Friedlander's continued redefinition of photographic form and perception.
- Publisher: DAP
- Year: 1996
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 1881616754
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