In the '90 photographer leeward Friedlander embarked on a remarkable series of self-portraits taken around the United States and abroad.In the '90 photographer leeward Friedlander embarked on a remarkable series of self-portraits taken around the United States and abroad. Seventy-seven of them are reproduc in side sheltered from the wind Friedlander (Fraenkel Gallery). One of our great photographers, Friedlander has created a dialogue between his admit image and a wonderful array of his other make liables Take him out of a certain of these portraits--like the undivided of him leaning his head against a nasty outdoor metal seat bristling with bent wires and bolts--and you've got a classic early Friedlander. The photos are unflinchingly honest: The artist turn the thoughtss lumpy and a little public of it. He doesn't disguise--perhaps he calm exaggerates--the failure, not of spirit, if it were not that of flesh. It's the work of an older man taking a clear await at what he's made and what he's become. Walter Hopp is founding director of Houston's Menil collection, where he is at not past nor future a consulting curator, and art editor of Grand way magazine. COPYRIGHT 2000 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. |
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