“Building Brasilia” is photographer Marcel Gautherot’s account of the construction of this modern capital city.

The fine black-and-white images celebrate the surreal grace of Oscar Niemeyer’s sensuous whitewashed forms.

Lee Friedlander’s new photos confound the notion that an artist’s later work is diluted and less passionate than his earlier work.  The dozens of photos in “America by Car,” crammed into the small mezzanine galleries of the Whitney, are bristling with visual energy.

Taken over the past twelve years during road trips, they document views from the front seat of the photographer’s car.  The vehicle’s windows and doors appear in every shot, but instead of becoming a repetitive framing device they function dynamically, collapsing the huge, often sad space of the landscape onto the intimate interior architecture of the car.  Friedlander’s purposeful, eccentric views gives the familiar landscape a caustic intensity.  What this photographer sees is highly particular.

(Lee Friedlander, Arizona, 2007, from the series America by Car, 1995-2009.)