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The Social Landscapes of Lee Friedlander
Washington, DC, 1962
More than 20 years later, Lee’s responses to my questions followed the same pattern.
Simply put, Friedlander speaks softly, carries a small camera and lets his photographs do the talking. While this is his career-long modus operandi, consciously adhering to any convention would be unlikely.
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Born in 1934, he began photographing the American “social landscape” in 1948, a term he would later coin. “It seems to me it’s my place of work. I just named it the ‘social landscape.’ It’s not—what would be the opposite—trees or forest.
I was working in those days mostly in the city, like Garry Winogrand and such. It was just a description of where I work.”
Regardless of the subject matter, everything that has appeared before Friedlander’s lens over the past five decades has been captured with a distinctive vision of the world, making the seemingly ordinary just the opposite through dynamic compositions and an acute awaren