{"id":951,"date":"2010-03-23T13:36:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T13:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=951"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:37:33","slug":"frielanders-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"Friedlander’s Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure that the video of Lee Friedlander<\/a> compiled by Mark Schwarz<\/em> has a great deal to recommend it, though it could perhaps be seen as an ironically satirical comment on a US American lifestyle, but I’m afraid it really is straight-forward piece of genial Californian whimsy for Mr Lee’s 75th birthday on 14 July 2009.<\/p>\n

But the site, AMERICAN SUBURB X<\/a>,\u00a0 does have a wealth of interesting material, including an illustrated article on Friedlander<\/a> by Rod Slemmons<\/em>, Director at The Museum of Contemporary Photography<\/em>, and another <\/a>by Carol Armstrong<\/em>, professor of art and archaeology and Doris Stevens Professor of the Study of Women and Gender at Princeton University, written at the time of his 2005 MoMA show which may well enlarge your vocabulary, though I find her style akin to torture.\u00a0 But academics certainly get brownie points for that.<\/p>\n

Of course lots more about lots of other photographers including Aaron Siskind and William Klein – and quite a few alphabetically in between on its ‘ASX Channels.’\u00a0 As well as some whose names I won’t mention without mouthwash to hand.<\/p>\n

Among the various articles, there is one by Paul Graham<\/em>, from his presentation at the first MoMA Photography Forum<\/em> on 16th February 2010, The Unreasonable Apple<\/em><\/a> in which he likens the art world’s approach to straight photography to “the parable of an isolated community who grew up eating potatoes all their life, and when presented with an apple, thought it unreasonable and useless, because it didn\u0092t taste like a potato<\/em>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure that the video of Lee Friedlander compiled by Mark Schwarz has a great deal to recommend it, though it could perhaps be seen as an ironically satirical comment on a US American lifestyle, but I’m afraid it really is straight-forward piece of genial Californian whimsy for Mr Lee’s 75th birthday on 14 … Continue reading Friedlander’s Diet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-history","category-photographers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}