{"id":14768,"date":"2015-04-05T10:13:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=14768"},"modified":"2015-04-05T10:13:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T17:13:19","slug":"lee-friedlander-at-phg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=14768","title":{"rendered":"Lee Friedlander at PHG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-14769\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FujiDLMini_Jan2015_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14769\" alt=\"FujiDLMini_Jan2015_001\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FujiDLMini_Jan2015_001.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FujiDLMini_Jan2015_001.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FujiDLMini_Jan2015_001-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FujiDLMini_Jan2015_001-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-14770\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FujiDLMini_Jan2015_002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14770\" alt=\"FujiDLMini_Jan2015_002\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FujiDLMini_Jan2015_002.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FujiDLMini_Jan2015_002.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FujiDLMini_Jan2015_002-150x98.jpg 150w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FujiDLMini_Jan2015_002-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-14771\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FujiDLMini_Jan2015_003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14771\" alt=\"FujiDLMini_Jan2015_003\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FujiDLMini_Jan2015_003.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FujiDLMini_Jan2015_003.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FujiDLMini_Jan2015_003-150x97.jpg 150w, http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/FujiDLMini_Jan2015_003-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>I&#8217;ve read about Lee Friedlander and seen\u00a0some of his images in photography books, I&#8217;ve struggled to understand some of his compositions and what he was trying to convey but it wasn&#8217;t until I saw\u00a0a larger group\u00a0of his works in person at the Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver that I understood the humour behind many of them. There are images of his of course that stand alone but\u00a0when\u00a0he has curated them by typology into books\u00a0even I can\u00a0grasp the concepts.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure at what moment I came to the revelation but it was punctuated by a little laugh and surprise that I had been missing that aspect of his work.\u00a0 Take for example a series of landscape pictures, some of familiar locales in the Rockies, \u00a0rather than taking the shot you would expect with a un obstructed foreground Freidlander purposefully places bushes and branches between us and the landscape.\u00a0 Seeing a single Lee Friedlander photograph in isolation I think\u00a0does a disservice, his books where series are brought together do a much better job and have a visual wit to them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read about Lee Friedlander and seen\u00a0some of his images in photography books, I&#8217;ve struggled to understand some of his compositions and what he was trying to convey but it wasn&#8217;t until I saw\u00a0a larger group\u00a0of his works in person at the Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver that I understood the humour behind many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-observations","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14768"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15084,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14768\/revisions\/15084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}