Lee Friedlander
"It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you." - Friedlander, Lee
:: Born 1934 in Aberdeen, Washington
:: Influential American photographer and artist
::Key figure in the 1967 New Documents exhibition,at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City
:: Early work influenced by Eugene Ategt, Robert Frank, and Walker Evans
:: Early work known for his self-exploration evidenced in self portraits and his cultural statements, such as can be seen in his photographs of the influence of televisions
:: Also known for dense and often visually witty black and white streetscape views
:: While suffering from arthritis he was housebound and like many other artists and photographers made use of what was around him
:: A Jazz aficionado and did a series of portraits of Jazz musicians
Below are a series of photographs I took in a style similar to that of Friedlander. I wanted my photos to be self portrait but not actually include myself in them. I love his photographs he took which included the television sets so I decided to take photos in black and white of the TV's we have in our house. This to me is self portrait as the photos are of space which is personal to me and my family lifestyle. A lot of Friedlander's work includes reflections in shop windows and mirrors, I decided to take photographs in all our mirrors too trying to capture what was in the room in the reflections. I am extremely pleased with how the photographs turned out.
"It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you." - Friedlander, Lee
:: Born 1934 in Aberdeen, Washington
:: Influential American photographer and artist
::Key figure in the 1967 New Documents exhibition,at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City
:: Early work influenced by Eugene Ategt, Robert Frank, and Walker Evans
:: Early work known for his self-exploration evidenced in self portraits and his cultural statements, such as can be seen in his photographs of the influence of televisions
:: Also known for dense and often visually witty black and white streetscape views
:: While suffering from arthritis he was housebound and like many other artists and photographers made use of what was around him
:: A Jazz aficionado and did a series of portraits of Jazz musicians
Below are a series of photographs I took in a style similar to that of Friedlander. I wanted my photos to be self portrait but not actually include myself in them. I love his photographs he took which included the television sets so I decided to take photos in black and white of the TV's we have in our house. This to me is self portrait as the photos are of space which is personal to me and my family lifestyle. A lot of Friedlander's work includes reflections in shop windows and mirrors, I decided to take photographs in all our mirrors too trying to capture what was in the room in the reflections. I am extremely pleased with how the photographs turned out.
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