Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander: A Ramble in Olmsted Parks
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Howard Gilman Gallery
1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
New York, New York 10028-0198
January 22, 2008–May 11, 2008
In the early 1980's, Lee Friedlander began photographing parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America's premier landscape architect. Some of Olmsted's most notable designs are: Central Park in New York City, Prospect Park in Brooklyn; Cherokee Park in Louisville, Ky.; World’s End in Hingham, Mass.; Niagara Falls State Park. Approximately forty images of Olmsted's parks by Lee Friedlander will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This exhibit marks the 150th (1858) anniversary of the design for Olmsted’s masterpiece, New York’s Central Park.