Mr. Friedlander is a skilled photographer, and I like his photos, but I wish he had used color film in more than a few of them.  Dr. Edward Allen included <i>The Annotated Lolita </i>in the required reading list of his graduate-level course &quot;Novels of the American Road&quot; at the University of South Dakota in the 1990s, along with Least Heat-Moon&#39;s <i>Blue Highways, </i>Steinbeck&#39;s<i> Travels With Charley, </i>and of course Kerouac&#39;s <i>On The Road.</i><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Nabokv-L <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu">nabokv-l@utk.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">




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Photographer Lee Friedlander&#39;s show &quot;America by Car&quot; opens today at the
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Whitney Museum in New York City. The photographs in the show and the <br>
accompanying book show Friedlander&#39;s vision of the US through the <br>
windows and mirrors of his various rental cars over the last 15 years. <br>
Although there is no explicit connection to anything Nabokovian (as far
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as I know), the scenes he captures in this show, and in his older car <br>
images dating back to the 1960s, make me think of the Nabokovs driving <br>
around the US, as well as Humbert&#39;s and Dolly&#39;s trips. The humor and <br>
shadowy presence of the photographer in these works also seem to
express <br>
a sort of kinship with VN . . .<br>
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See the New York Times story and about seven shots from the Whitney
show <br>
here:<br>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/arts/design/03car.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/arts/design/03car.html</a><br>
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View about 96 Friedlander images from his entire career here:<br>
<a href="http://www.fraenkelgallery.com/#mi=222&amp;pt=1&amp;pi=10000&amp;s=0&amp;p=0&amp;a=10&amp;at=1" target="_blank">http://www.fraenkelgallery.com/#mi=222&amp;pt=1&amp;pi=10000&amp;s=0&amp;p=0&amp;a=10&amp;at=1</a>
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These are beautiful, thought- and laughter-provoking photographs, <br>
very much in VN&#39;s spirit. Enjoy!<br>
Stephen Blackwell<br>
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