{"product_id":"9781846381607","title":"Lee Friedlander: The Little Screens","description":"Lee Friedlander's \u003ci\u003eThe Little Screens \u003c\/i\u003efirst appeared as a 1963 photo-essay in \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, with commentary by Walker Evans. Six untitled photographs show television screens broadcasting eerily glowing images of faces and figures into unoccupied rooms in homes and motels across America. As distinctive a portrait of an era as Robert Frank's \u003ci\u003eThe Americans, The Little Screens\u003c\/i\u003e grew in number and was not brought together in its entirety until a 2001 exhibition at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco.Friedlander (b. 1934) is known for his use of surfaces and reflections----from storefront windows to landscapes viewed through car windshields -- to present a pointed view of American life. The photographs that make up \u003ci\u003eThe Little Screens\u003c\/i\u003e represent an early example of this photographic strategy, offering the narrative of a peripatetic photographer moving through the landscape of 1960s America that was in thrall to a new medium.In this astute study, Saul Anton argues that \u003ci\u003eThe Little Screens \u003c\/i\u003emarked the historical intersection of modern art and photography at the moment when television came into its own as the dominant medium of mass culture. Friedlander's images, Anton shows, reflect the competing logics of the museum and print and electronic media, and anticipate the issues that have emerged with the transition to a world of ubiquitous \"little screens.\"","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140218470640,"sku":"9781846381607","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781846381607_p0.jpg?v=1763749604","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781846381607","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}