Lee Friedlander: The Little Screens

Friedlander’s 1960s photographs show television screens in motel rooms and other anonymous spaces, transmitting images of pop icons, political figures, or minor celebrities. Called by Walker Evans “deft, witty, spanking little poems of hate,” the images reveal an emerging reality—the omnipresence of screens and the drone of television voices in an increasingly isolationist culture.

Black-and-white photograph of a television with a woman's face onscreen on top of a bureau
Black-and-white photograph of a neatly made bed and a television with a mans face on screen
Black-and-white photograph of a television with an up close image of a womans face on screen
Black-and-white photograph of a television with figures on screen, a reflection in a door mirror, and a toilet
Black-and-white photograph of the bottom edge of a bed and a television with a childs face on screen
Black-and-white photograph of a television with a laughing face on screen and a shirt hanging from an open door
Black-and-white photograph of a television with a crying face on screen and a shirt hanging from an open door
Black-and-white photograph of a television with a motorcyclist on screen and a radiator
Black-and-white photograph of a television with an FBI wanted poster on screen and a taxidermy moose head on the wall in the background
Black-and-white photograph of room with a lamp a chair and a television with a close up of an eye on screen
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