Lee Friedlander

    Lee Friedlander was a photographer born in 1934 in Washington. He was interested in photography from a young age and then went on to study at an art school in Los Angeles, California. His work follows the “documentary style” of photography and he is also considered by many to be a street photographer. We studied his work as an example this week when we looked at reflections in photographs. Friedlander is very well known for his ability to connect with the space around him in his photos. (ICP, 

1999)

The first piece I am choosing to look at by Lee Friedlander is one of his pieces that focus on reflections. This piece was photographed in New Orleans. One thing I really like about this is how much it reminds me of modern-day social media. On Instagram and Snapchat, people are always taking pictures like this in front of mirrors and I just think it's funny how this was taken a long time ago before social media was a thing but it looks exactly like what I see today. Another thing I really appreciate about this piece is how he captured the lights and darks even with the glass because I can imagine that would be difficult.

The other piece I chose to talk about is this, titled “America by Car”. I really think this piece is just visually interesting. One thing I really like about Lee Friedlander is how you can see how much thought he puts into his photos just by looking at them. For example, in this one, the car on the pole is perfectly framed in the window of the actual car. Another thing I really like about this piece is its lighting of it. I really like how the inside of the car he is in is all very dark (but not dark enough that you can't see details) while outside of the car, it's all very light.


I really like Lee Friedman for a lot of reasons but my main one is because of his style of photography. I personally find it really exciting to photograph people and places in their candid moments and that is exactly what Friedlander does. I also feel like it's incredibly hard to photograph reflections correctly (especially without a digital camera) and he does such a good job of it.












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