With a healthy sprinkle of plastic and tinsel, Friedlander's visions of a commercial, uniquely American Christmas evoke both irony and nostalgia. Whether or not you celebrated Christmas at some point during the last 70 years, you have no doubt encountered many of the scenes shown here in Lee Friedlander's eclectic black and white documentation of the holiday season across America. From city sidewalks to cookie cutter suburbs, Friedlander captures it all: main street store window displays; plastic nativities on snow covered lawns, inflatable snow globes and Santa Clauses, questionable St Nicholas themed lingerie, oversize or underwhelming Christmas trees, and houses so covered in string lights as to demand nothing short of a miracle from the local power grid. 112 pages
