In America, Christmas is an expansive holiday. At different times, to different people, it may be a joyous celebration of the ...

Lee Friedlander coined a term for the subject of his work: the “social landscape.” The great American documentary photographer, now 89, gives each rowhouse and strip mall and mass-produced car a ...

In 1957, Lee Friedlander was just 22 and mostly earning a living making photos for Atlantic album covers. He hadn’t yet published his first monograph, nor had he fully developed the approach to ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Untitled, gelatin silver print. Credit: Friedlander, Courtesy Eakins Press Foundation It’s not ...

The photographer Lee Friedlander once said in an interview, “Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust.” He added, “The pictures make me realize that ...

LEE FRIEDLANDER'S desert is the desert of danger, the one you'd see if you were in trouble. Say you were stuck out in the Sonoran wilderness at high noon in summer, lost, thirsty and tired. You wouldn ...

With Schwartz behind the wheel of his black Range Rover and Maria in back, Friedlander aimed his Hasselblad camera through the windshield at the ArcelorMittal plant, houses in Slavic Village and other ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1788): It’s easy to become discouraged about the effectiveness of public protest­—until you look back at how much it has mattered in changing American life. That came home to me this ...

A new book featuring the photographs of Lee Friedlander shows the significance of random public announcements like ‘No Parking’ and ‘Everything Must Go!’ By Matthew Sedacca The signs, if you’re ...

Lee Friedlander, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1971. Vintage Gelatin Silver print, 7.4 x 11.1 inches, 18.8 x 28.2 centimeters. Signed, dated, titled in pencil with artist's stamp in ink verso. Fine vintage ...