Lee Friedlander: America by Car November 10, 2010

Driving across most of the country's fifty states in an ordinary rental car, master photographer Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield and the side windows as picture frames within which to record reflections of this country's eccentricities and obsessions at the beginning of the twenty-first century.