Topless Wedding in Los Angeles; reception followed

Lee Friedlander, artist

born 1934

Topless Wedding in Los Angeles; reception followed, 1967

Portfolio/Series title: "The Party’s Over," published in Esquire

Where object was made: Los Angeles, California, United States

Material/technique: gelatin silver print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 21 x 31.5 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 8 1/4 x 12 3/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 16 x 20 in

Credit line: Gift of Esquire, Inc.

Accession number: 1980.0263

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Exhibition Label:
"Signs of Faith: Photographs from the Collection," Oct-2001, Elissa L.Anderson
Friedlander’s photograph appeared in an Esquire article “The Party’s Over,” on the extravagant and decadent parties popular in the late 1960s throughout the United States. The picture’s somewhat unsettling subject of a topless wedding blurs the boundary between the sanctified institution of marriage and the social liberties taken at that time in daily life.