Image of the Day

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Lee Friedlander, Montana 2008.
From Lee Friedlander: America by Car, a new exhibition (through Nov. 28) at the Whitney. Read Karen Rosenberg's review at nytimes.com and Elisabeth Biondi's at thenewyorker.com (both with slideshows).

Happy Independence Day

. Robert Mapplethorpe

Peter Beard

Lee Friedlander

Joel Meyerowitz

Diane Arbus

Fort McHenry flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star Spangled Banner"

William Klein

Kate Moss by Craig McDean

Robert Frank

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cape Cod, 1947: "This woman explained to me that the flagpole over her door was broken, but 'on such a day as this, one keeps one’s flag on one’s heart.'"

Image of the Day

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Washington State, 1970, by Lee Friedlander
(b. 1934 in Aberdeen, WA)

The New York Times reported today that Lee Friedlander's archives and 2,000 prints from his collection have been jointly acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. According to the Times: "The gallery will get 1,800 prints, including every image in Mr. Friedlander’s monographs since 1996." The library will acquire the archive and Friedlander's photographs of Western landscapes.

Time for a trip to New Haven.