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Lee Friedlander

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Template:Short description Template:About Template:Use mdy dates Template:BLP sources Template:Infobox artist Lee Friedlander (Template:IPAc-en; born July 14, 1934) is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 1970s, Friedlander evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban "social landscape," with many of his photographs including fragments of store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, posters and street signs. His work is characterized by its innovative use of framing and reflection, often using the natural environment or architectural elements to frame his subjects. Over the course of his career, Friedlander has been the recipient of numerous awards and his work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries worldwide (Museum of Modern Art, New York, Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Life and workEdit

Friedlander was born in Aberdeen, Washington, on July 14, 1934<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> to Kaari Nurmi (Finnish descent) and Fritz (Fred) Friedlander (a German-Jewish émigré). His mother died of cancer when he was seven years old.

Already earning pocket-money as a photographer by age 14, he went on at the age of 18 to study photography at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In 1956, he moved to New York City, where he photographed jazz musicians for record album covers. His early work was influenced by Eugène Atget, Robert Frank and Walker Evans. Friedlander is regarded as one of Atget's heirs.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1960, Friedlander was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to focus on his art, and was awarded subsequent grants in 1962 and 1977. 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Working primarily with hand-held Leica 35 mm cameras and black-and-white film, Friedlander's style has 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."Template:Citation needed

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.<ref name="utpress.utexas.edu">Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name="moma-press-release">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="guardian-ohagan">Template:Cite news</ref> 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. In 1990, the MacArthur Foundation awarded Friedlander a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2005, the Museum of Modern Art presented a major retrospective of Friedlander's career,<ref name="moma-retrospective">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> including nearly 400 photographs from the 1950s to the present; it was presented again in 2008 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.<ref name="sfmoma-retrospective">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2022, contemporary photographer Joseph Maida discussed Friedlander's work from the 1970s and 80's in his monograph A Third Look,.<ref name="nyt">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2023, Joel Coen curated an exhibition of 70 of Friedlander's photographs, which were shown (45 different photographs at each site) at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco and in New York at Luhring Augustine.<ref>"Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen, May 6–Jun 24, 2023. An exhibition of the inimitable photographer’s work, curated by the acclaimed filmmaker"</ref>

While suffering from arthritis and housebound, he focused on photographing his surroundings. His book Stems reflects his life during the time of his knee replacement surgery. He has said that his "limbs" reminded him of plant stems.Template:Citation needed

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-designed parks for 20 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. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the design for Central Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art held an exhibition of Friedlander's photographs of that park and a book was published, Photographs: Frederick Law Olmsted Landscapes.<ref name="met-olmsted">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="kennedy-nyt">Template:Cite news</ref> "

Friedlander now works primarily with medium format cameras, such as the Hasselblad Superwide.Template:Citation needed

Personal lifeEdit

It has been claimed that Friedlander is "notoriously media shy,"<ref name="kennedy-nyt" /> but he did grant an interview to The New York Times in April 2023, in which he discussed his work.<ref>"Filmmaker Joel Coen Puts His Spin on the Photos of Lee Friedlander, Working in his California home 3,000 miles away during Covid, the director struck a sympathetic chord with the venerated photographer. A book and two gallery shows resulted," by Arthur Lubow, The New York Times, May 1, 2023</ref>

He married his wife Maria in 1958.<ref name="maria">Template:Cite magazine</ref> She has been the subject of many of his portraits.<ref name="maria" />

Their daughter Anna is married to photographer Thomas Roma. Their son Erik is a cellist and composer.

PublicationsEdit

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  • American Musicians: Photographs by Lee Friedlander. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 1998. Template:ISBN. By Friedlander, Steve Lacy, and Ruth Brown.
  • Lee Friedlander. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2000. Template:ISBN.
  • Lee Friedlander at Work. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2002. Template:ISBN.
  • Stems. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2003. Template:ISBN.
  • Lee Friedlander: Sticks and Stones: Architectural America. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2004. Template:ISBN. By Friedlander and James Enyeart.
  • Friedlander. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2005. Template:ISBN. By Peter Galassi.
  • Cherry Blossom Time in Japan: The Complete Works. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2006. Template:ISBN.
  • Lee Friedlander: New Mexico. Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2008. Template:ISBN. By Friedlander, Andrew Smith, and Emily Ballew Neff.
  • Photographs: Frederick Law Olmsted Landscapes. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2008. Template:ISBN.
  • America by Car. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2010. Template:ISBN.
  • Portraits: The Human Clay: Volume 1. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2015. Template:ISBN.
  • Children: The Human Clay: Volume 2. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2015. Template:ISBN.
  • Street: The Human Clay: Volume 3. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2016. Template:ISBN.
  • Lee Friedlander: Western Landscapes. New Haven, CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2016. ISBN 978-0-300-22301-9.
  • Head. Oakland, CA: TBW Books, 2017. Subscription Series #5, Book #4. Template:ISBN. Edition of 1000 copies. Friedlander, Mike Mandel, Susan Meiselas and Bill Burke each had one book in a set of four.

AwardsEdit

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  • 1962: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.<ref name="gf.org">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 1977: Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.<ref name="gf.org"/>
  • 1986: Edward MacDowell Medal, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • 2018: Lifetime Achievement, Lucie Awards.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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ExhibitionsEdit

Solo exhibitionsEdit

  • 1963: George Eastman House, curated by Nathan Lyons. Friedlander's first solo exhibition.<ref name="utpress.utexas.edu" />
  • 1986: Cherry Blossom Time in Japan, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City.
  • 1988: Lee Friedlander: Cray at Chippewa Falls, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City.
  • 1989: Like a One-Eyed Cat: Photographs by Lee Friedlander 1956–1987, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City.
  • 1991: Lee Friedlander: A Selection of Nudes, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City.
  • 1991: Lee Friedlander: Work in Progress/Sonora Desert, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City.
  • 1993: Letters from the People: Photographs by Lee Friedlander, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Group exhibitionsEdit

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ReferencesEdit

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