O Little Town of West Texas
Lee Friedlander goes to homes for the holidays
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In his famed series of photos from the '60s, "Little Screens," Friedlander used his perceptive eye to find oddness in the banal though haunting shots of TV screens illuminating domestic spaces. But in most of "Xmas in Texas," he's exoticizing the rural, the poor and the working class -- the people who don't watch Martha Stewart or own animatronic Christmas displays. His images of yard art don't really go beyond the superficial. Instead, Friedlander is documenting ready-made "strangeness" in a way that feels slightly patronizing. Friedlander is a pro, and these are all lovely images. But you get the sense he was seduced by his own vacation photos.
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