Background
Friedlander, Lee N. was born on July 14, 1934 in Aberdeen, Washington, United States to Kaari Nurmi (Finnish descent) and Fritz Friedlander (a Polish-Jewish émigré). His mother Kaari died of cancer when he was seven years old.
(Friedlander First Fifty provides an inside look at Friedl...)
Friedlander First Fifty provides an inside look at Friedlander’s first fifty books, featuring extensive commentary directly from Friedlander on his own work. The book contains photographs from each of the first fifty books, as well as descriptions, publication information, and most notably, interviews with Friedlander and his wife, Maria, conducted by Friedlander’s grandson, Giancarlo, and daughter, Anna, who together co-published the book. The result is the most personal and candid look at Friedlander’s life and career to date, as told to his own family.
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(For more than five decades, Lee Friedlander has repeatedl...)
For more than five decades, Lee Friedlander has repeatedly been drawn to the signs that inscribe the American landscape, from hand-lettered ads to storefront windows to massive billboards. Incorporating these markings with precision and sly humor, Friedlander’s photographs record a kind of found poetry of desire and commerce.
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(The American Monument has influenced generations of photo...)
The American Monument has influenced generations of photographers, curators and art historians. The edition includes the original essay by Eakins Press founder Leslie George Katz along with a new essay by eminent past NYC s Museum of Modern Art s photography curator and Friedlander scholar Peter Galassi, which illuminates the history and continued significance of this iconic artist and this early publication.
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(In this extraordinary compilation, Friedlander turns his ...)
In this extraordinary compilation, Friedlander turns his attention to the natural landscape. Western Landscapes features more than 175 images of the western United States, Canada, and Mexico, taken during the 1990s and 2000s. The selection encompasses mountains, deserts, icy plains, and forests alike, capturing the majesty of crashing waves and towering peaks as well as the humble beauty of mottled stones and tangled twigs. Friedlander also showcases in crisp black and white some of the most prominent and treasured American national parks - including Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and Zion.
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Friedlander, Lee N. was born on July 14, 1934 in Aberdeen, Washington, United States to Kaari Nurmi (Finnish descent) and Fritz Friedlander (a Polish-Jewish émigré). His mother Kaari died of cancer when he was seven years old.
Already earning pocket-money as a photographer since he was 14, Lee N. Friedlander went on at the age of 18, to study photography at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
In 1956, Lee N. Friedlander moved to New York City, where he photographed jazz musicians for record covers. His early work was influenced by Eugène Atget, Robert Frank, and Walker Evans. Some of his most famous photographs appeared in the September 1985 Playboy, black and white nude photographs of Madonna from the late 1970s. A student at the time, she was paid $25 for her 1979 set. In 2009, one of the images fetched $37,500 at a Christie's Art House auction.
Working primarily with hand-held Leica 35 mm cameras and black-and-white film, Friedlander's style focused on the "social landscape". His photographs used detached images of urban life, store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, and posters and signs all combining to capture the look of modern life.
In 1963, Nathan Lyons, Assistant Director and Curator of Photography at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House mounted Friedlander's first solo exhibition. Lee N. Friedlander was then a key figure in curator John Szarkowski's 1967 "New Documents" exhibition, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York along with Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus. In 1973, his work was honored at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in France with the screening "Soirée américaine : Judy Dater, Jack Welpott, Jerry Uelsmann, Lee Friedlander" presented by Jean-Claude Lemagny.
Lee N. Friedlander began photographing parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted for a six-year commission from the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal beginning in 1988. After completing the commission he continued to photograph Olmsted parks, for twenty years in total. His series includes New York City's Central Park; Brooklyn's Prospect Park; Manhattan's Morningside Park; World's End in Hingham, Massachusetts; Cherokee Park in Louisville, Kentucky; and Niagara Falls State Park.
He now works primarily with medium format cameras such as the Hasselblad Superwide.
(For more than five decades, Lee Friedlander has repeatedl...)
(Friedlander First Fifty provides an inside look at Friedl...)
(The American Monument has influenced generations of photo...)
(In this extraordinary compilation, Friedlander turns his ...)
Lee N. Friedlander married his wife Maria in 1958. She has been the subject of many of his portraits. Their daughter Anna is married to photographer Thomas Roma.