{"product_id":"lee-friedlander-christmas-9780871301055","title":"Lee Friedlander: Christmas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a healthy sprinkle of plastic and tinsel, Friedlander's visions of a commercial, uniquely American Christmas evoke both irony and nostalgia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether or not you celebrated Christmas at some point during the last 70 years, you have no doubt encountered many of the scenes shown here in Lee Friedlander's eclectic black-and-white documentation of the holiday season across America. From city sidewalks to cookie-cutter suburbs, Friedlander captures it all: main street store window displays; plastic nativities on snow-covered lawns; inflatable snowglobes and Santa Clauses; questionable St. Nicholas-themed lingerie; oversize or underwhelming Christmas trees; and houses so covered in string lights as to demand nothing short of a miracle from the local power grid.\u003cbr\u003eAs in all of his work, Friedlander's images of Christmas reflect his own version of the holiday. Is Christmas in America a religious celebration? A commercial precept? A misunderstanding? An indulgent blasphemy? Or all of the above? The only certain thing is that December 25 has provided an opportunity for the people's photographer to hold up a mirror to a flawed, inventive, preoccupied and wonderful society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLee Friedlander\u003c\/b\u003e (born 1934) has published more than 60 monographs since 1969. He was represented alongside Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand in the 1967 \u003ci\u003eNew Documents\u003c\/i\u003e exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, now understood as a landmark event in American documentary photography, and received his own retrospective at the same museum in 2005. He has lived and worked in New York since 1956.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Eakins Press Foundation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676165964050,"sku":"9780871301055","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_50201e3e-7184-4b43-aae6-dcf91d9cb453.jpg?v=1761047539","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lee-friedlander-christmas-9780871301055","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}