Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Photographer
- Lee Friedlander, American, born 1934
- Date
- 1972, printed 1978
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- photographed in
- Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 7 3/8 x 11 1/8 in. (18.7 x 28.3 cm)
sheet: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm) - Credit Line
- Martin Schweig Memorial Fund for Photography
- Rights
- © Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, and Luhring Augustine, New York
- Object Number
- 799:1983
NOTES
In this oddly deserted view in Albuquerque, Lee Friedlander knits disparate elements together in an intricate composition of lines and forms whose geometric nature is laid bare by the intense desert sunlight. In the midst of this sun-bleached space sits a lone black dog with its tongue lolling out, seeming to wait patiently at a crosswalk for the light to change. This is Central Avenue, part of the legendary Route 66—which stretched from Chicago to Los Angeles—whose traffic had largely been diverted to the newer Route 40.
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