The Little Screens by Lee Friedlander, Deluxe Signed 1st Edition, 82 of 100

The Little Screens by Lee Friedlander

First Edition, First Printing, 2001

Deluxe Signed First Edition, 82 of 100

Signed and Numbered by Lee Friedlander

FINE Condition

This is a very rare deluxe signed first edition of “The Little Screens” published by Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco in 2001 with a limitation of 100 copies this being number 82. From the publisher: "The Little Screens is a revered and influential body of early work by Lee Friedlander, but it has never before been brought together in its entirety. The book's title refers to the television screens housed in motel rooms and other nondescript rooms of anonymous character spread throughout the country during the 1960s. Each screen vividly transmits images of popular culture icons, political figures, or minor celebrities of the times. The environments are iconographic ghost-filled rooms filled with bland furniture -- rooms without personality, rooms that could be, and are, anywhere and everywhere. The Little Screens and their environments weave a narrative of a peripatetic photographer moving through the landscape of 1960s America, and the melancholy, yet sometimes comic quality of life lived on the road. They provide a look at the 1960s as so many people saw it: beamed into their living rooms. The book's preface was written by the legendary Walker Evans after he saw the photographs in 1963.”

Containing 34 duotone photographs and measuring 10” x 10”, the book is bound in photographically illustrated laminated paper covered boards with a crystallogranpic dual-image tipped into the television screen portion of the cover photograph. The book (no dust jacket as issued) is housed in a green Plexiglass slipcase. The book has been boldly signed and numbered (82 of 100) by Lee Friedlander opposite the first page. The book is in FINE condition with just a hint of wear from the book sliding in and out of the slipcase. The condition of the Plexiglass slipcase is FINE- with very minor surface wear.

Photographs of the book in the Plexiglass case (a stock photo was used because the Plexiglass makes it virtually impossible to photograph without reflections), the signature page as well as photographs contained in the book appear below. Please note that although the photographs appear digitized as thumbnails, they are viewable in the photo viewer by running your mouse over the thumbnail. You can also click on the thumbnail to open a separate window where the pictures are viewable as a slideshow.