Surrealism U.S.A., a New York Magazine review of the Lee Friedlander exhibit at the MoMA, says the retrospective shows us America in all its garish glee.

Friedlander creates complex medleys of meaning among various photographs, instinctively working in books and series. (The images in this show are clustered around 60 themes.) He’s not a “decisive moment” man, to use Henri Cartier-Bresson’s famous phrase. He shows us “the decisive moment . . . and then.”