FRIEDLANDER, Lee.

Inquire · Offered by Peter Harrington

The American Monument. First edition, inscribed by the photographer on the second blank. This copy is one of 2,000 published in the trade edition; there was also a special edition of 150 copies containing an original print signed by the photographer, and a deluxe edition of 50 copies containing ten such prints.A striking portfolio of Friedlander's photographs of statues and monuments, The American Monument is "a big, ambitious collector's item containing 213 meticulous gravure plates and packaged like a nineteenth-century travel album... rounding up everything from Plymouth Rock to a plaque commemorating the Pony Express in Salt Lake City" (Roth, p. 236).

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