Lee Friedlander Books (Correction)

I heard from our friend Q.T. (Tuan) Luong, the French-American photographer of our National Parks, who created the massive and impressive American landscape projects Treasured Lands and Our National Monuments. (He is also the founder of the Large Format Photography Forum.) Tuan corrected me: it's not Lee and Maria Friedlander's son Erik who is helping Lee sell his vast stock of his old books, but their daughter Anna's son Giancarlo Roma, Lee and Maria's grandson. The set of all the books is available for $20,000, but many of the books—signed—are also available individually, all from Haywire Press. I would definitely buy a signed hardcover of Like a One-Eyed Cat if I had $200 lying around. That was an important book for me and my copy somehow got pretty trashed, although I can't recall how.

There's a nice interview with Tuan Luong by Kevin Raber of PhotoPXL on YouTube.

Reader Jeff also called me on my characterization of the Howard Stern incident I referenced in the "time capsule" paragraph of the Contax RTS II Part II post, citing this link. I did not research or fact-check that paragraph extensively. However, I don't know Inside Radio, the source of the link Jeff suggested, and I encountered various conflicting accounts online, for example this one, from a much better-known source that I consider more trustworthy on its face. The Washington Post link and the Inside Radio link don't agree with each other entirely. I went with my memory; I heard the original comment on the air. It might not be right—memory is fallible, and subject to suggestibility and later revisionism—but I'm not convinced Jeff's link is the final authority either, although maybe it is.

It doesn't look like I'm going to get the Blur post done this weekend. Unfortunately, sometimes these things just need percolation time, and can't be rushed. That's art for ya. There's a lot of material to process. Hope you'll please stay tuned!

Mike

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Nikhil Ramkarran: "I got the Friedlander/Coen book a few days ago. I have been going through it slowly ever since. Somehow, although I have seen his images before, I never had one of his books. Honestly, this is the first book of photography that I have taken this much pleasure from in years. He sees as I do, but articulates so much better."

Comments

[Jeff]

The Washington Post link also describes the call as an inquiry regarding the ticket price, not to purchase a ticket, and says the firing was a year later, over a salary dispute. These were two of the three differences from your post that I was referring to. The only remaining difference was whether or not the call was actually to the airline, or acted out in studio. Regardless, my main point was that Stern eventually recognized his demons, sought help through therapy and made some apologies. I also threw in the Letterman reference , since you wrote about him, and because Stern and he had a very complicated long term relationship (see Jimmy Kimmel’s well publicized interview with Letterman on the topic).

[John Bennett]

Lee's grandson, Giancarlo, is a super nice guy.
Bought a book from him last winter. There's a great interview with him and his grandfather at the NYPL, which is searchable on YouTube.

Lastly, "Friedlander First 50" is a great book, and features Giancarlo in some of the transcribed reminisces about the first 50 books.