America by Car

Lee Friedlander

Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain means by which to take in the country’s vast scale. Lee Friedlander makes the car an actual ‘form’ for making photographs. Driving across the States in an ordinary rental car he used the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield and the sidewindows as a pictureframe to record the country’s eccentricities and obsessions at the turn of the century.