born July 14, 1934 Aberdeen, Washington, USA
American photographer
Lee Friedlander began photographing in 1948 because of a “fascination with the equipment,” in his words.
- MoCP
In 1956 he settled in New York and supported himself by producing photographs of jazz musicians for record jackets.
From the 1960s he started taking photographs of the ‘social landscape’ of the USA, detached images of urban life which, like Pop art works, captured the feel and look of modern society.
- MoMA
Friedlander always worked in series: street images, flowers, trees, gardens, landscapes, nudes, the industrial and post- industrial environment, portraits, self-portraits.
Friedlander's significance lies much more in his early photographs, in the way in which, with his camera, he gave shape to the banality of daily life, and recorded the complexity of the American social landscape from a strong appreciation of the importance of formal values.
- Profotos
