Monsey, N.Y.

Artist Lee Friedlander (American, born 1934)

Date1963; printed later

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 8 1/2 x 13 inches (21.59 x 33.02 cm)
Sheet: 11 x 14 inches (27.94 x 35.56 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2011.21.25

SignedVerso in pencil: Lee Friedlander/ Monsey, N.Y. 1963

InscribedVerso in pencil: LR corner: 11-31; LL corner: LF.9128Y

MarkingsVerso stamped: PRINTED 2009/ This Photograph is not released for publication of for commercial use of any kind. For Permission communicate with Lee Friedlander 52 South Mountain Road New City, N.Y. 10956 © LEE FRIEDLANDER

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Descriptionview of drive in movie screen, displaying JFKGallery Label

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Lee Friedlander began his professional career in photography in the mid-1950s and began to achieve high-level recognition for his personal photographs of the American social landscape of the early 1960s. This photograph takes as its subject a drive-in movie theater. Projected onto the outdoor movie screen is film footage of President John F. Kennedy just prior to his assassination on November 22, 1963. By picturing the film still against the natural backdrop of the sky, Friedlander highlights the pervasive cultural impact that television imagery had in nation’s collective mourning.

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