LEE FRIEDLANDER / STEMS

In 1994, suffering from aching knees and painfully concerned about it, Lee Friedlander decided to prepare himself for a sedentary li fe. During the months of February, May, June and December of 1994, he focused his lens on wild arrays of stems and the optical splen dor produced by light refracting through the glass vases that contained them. Published in a lush, oversize volume, printed with a s pecial drytrap process, Stems is the result of this unusual saga in the photographer's career.