Recognize

This is a new collection of Friedman’s work, based solely on his most recent artistic studies. This incredible book is the first of all of Glen E. Friedman’s books to not use anything from his past archives of infamous iconic images. It is based solely upon his most recent artistic studies and ambition. This new book, Recognize , has far reaching implications on the world of modern art. Glen E. Friedman’s mission with Recognize is no less than ‘re-aligning the aesthetic’ or demolishing and then re-making the rules by which we view and understand art. Just as Renaissance artists re-introduced the classical world’s honesty and discipline to art-making, Friedman restores picture-taking to its primary and vital function: composition of the natural world, combined with a sense of wonder at the magnificence of what is all around us. These photos are more pleasurable than one might expect because they are secretly more painful. They hide an aesthetic shock behind what first appears to be more picturesque nebulosity. They sneak up on you, gradually becoming more and more sexual, more uncomfortable. It’s customary nowadays to claim we distrust beauty because it has betrayed us. In fact the reverse is true: our culture betrays beauty and then blames it for its lack of depth. On this edge, Glen’s work is dancing.