- Hardcover: 193 pages
- Publisher: Charles Rivers Publishing Co. (Jan 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1891024485
- ISBN-13: 978-1891024481
- Product Dimensions: 30.9 x 29.8 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #991,245 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
From Library Journal
In the six photo essays compiled in this well-designed volume, widely admired American photographer Friedlander (e.g., The American Monument) presents images of factory, technology, and telemarketing workers. This visual workplace odyssey starts with "factory valleys" in Ohio and Pennsylvania in 1979 and ends in Omaha, NE, with "telemarketing" in 1995. Throughout, Friedlander centers his black-and-white photographs on the faces of individual workers-bored by repetition, firm in vocational resolve, or frozen for a moment in a physically demanding job. Benson (dean, Yale Univ. Sch. of Art) gives Friedlander a helping hand with a comforting afterword that connects these portraits of work with its reality. Maybe it is unfair to expect a collection of photo essays, commissioned by companies or art institutions, to show us something we never knew before, but a photography book succeeds or fails by its images. With no surprises to convey-we already know that many jobs are tedious and that the people stuck in them drift into a trance to get through the day-this book seems like an effort merely to expand the Friedlander bibliography. Recommended for comprehensive collections only.
David Bryant, New Canaan Lib., CT
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
David Bryant, New Canaan Lib., CT
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Lee Friedlander has had a distinguished career as a photographer. Among his many awards are a MacArthur Foundation Award, grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, and three Guggenheim Fellowships. He has previously published dozens of books, among them the seminal Self Portrait and The American Monument, and, more recently, American Musicians, Letters from the People, Little Screens, The Desert Seen, and Kitaj. He lives in New York State, but takes pictures everywhere.
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