Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) is one of the foremost American documentary photographers. Influenced by photography giants like Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, and Robert Frank, Friedlander took a reactionary approach to capturing street scenes. Many of his fragmentary images are made with dynamic composition and self-awareness, capturing the chaos of the city with a sense of humor and poignancy. He lends this same quality to his other bodies of work, including self-portraits, public monuments, and factory workers.
Friedlander's work has appeared in the pages of Esquire, Art in America, and Sports Illustrated, to name a few. Today, his photographs are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Victoria and Albert Museum (London); the Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris); the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, AZ); the New Orleans Museum of Art; and the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), among others. Friedlander's images have been exhibited dozens of times across the world. Some monographs of his include Sticks and Stones, Lee Friedlander: Photographs, Letters From the People, Apples and Olives, Cherry Blossom Time in Japan, Family, and At Work, all of which he designed and published himself.