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PhotographyApril 1997 The way Olmsted saw On Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander & Geoffrey James at the Equitable Gallery, New York That admirable institution, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, under the strong-willed leadership of Phyllis Lambert, has taken up the task of recording the fate of several of Frederick Law Olmsted’s landscape creations in North America.[1] The CCA hired three of our leading landscape photographers—Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander, and Geoffrey James—to assess the status of Olmsted’s works. What has emerged are an exhibition and a book that tell us a great deal more about the photographers’ concerns than about Olmsted’s. The handsomely printed catalogue to the exhibition provides us with plenty of information about the photographers, their works, and their approaches. The book includes a superb, if too-brief, essay by John Szarkowski on “The Photographer in the Garden.” Szarkowski is scarcely ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 15 April 1997, on page 41 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/wayolmstedsaw-morrone-3354
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