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Met Museum Photo Exhibit on Olmsted Parks

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  1. Catherine
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    http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/02/arts/20070103_LEEFRIEDLANDER_SLIDESHOW_index.html

    Lee Friedlander: A Ramble in Olmsted Parks
    January 22, 2008—“May 11, 2008
    The Howard Gilman Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

    This exhibition features approximately 40 photographs made by Lee Friedlander in the public parks and private estates designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (1822—“1903), North America's premier landscape architect. The show celebrates the complex, idiosyncratic picture making of one of the country's greatest living photographers. It also marks the 150th anniversary of the design (1858) for Olmsted's masterpiece, New York's Central Park. Rambling with intent across bridges and through the parks' open meadows and dense understory, Friedlander finds pure pleasure in Olmsted's landscapes—”in the meticulous stonework, in the careful balance of sun and shade, and in the mature, weather-beaten trees and their youthful issue.

    Posted Thursday Jan 31, 2008 09:35 #

  2. MikeT
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    How chiaroscuro! The pictures show what we Riversiders know, that an Olmsted landscape is beautiful all times, spring, fall, winter, summer, barren or full of foliage.

    Posted Friday Feb 1, 2008 00:02 #

  3. Catherine
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    We are fortunate indeed to LIVE inside an Olmsted, as if inside a great painting. Not many can say that. Let's keep it that way.

    Friedlander is a famed urban street photographer, yet even he had to fall in love with Olmsted.

    Posted Friday Feb 1, 2008 13:35 #

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