ART 30 Friedlander Biography

8/7/2019 ART 30 Friedlander Biography

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born Aberdeen, WA (USA) 1934

Lee Friedlander (born 1934 in Aberdeen, Washington) is an influential American photographerand artist.

Friedlander's early work is known for his self-exploration evidenced in his self-portraits and forhis cultural statements, such as can be seen in his photographs of the influence of television. Leealso is a Jazz aficionado and did a series ofportraits ofJazz musicians.

He was a key figure in the 1967 New Documents exhibition, at the Museum ofModern Art inNew York City. The New Documents exhibition also featured Garry Winogrand and Diane

Arbus. Over the years Friedlander's style has changed. Images from a period of 15 years acrossAmerica show his internalization in particular of Eugene Atget, Robert Frank, and Walker

Evans. His photographs reflect the knowledge of what came before but the images are entirelydifferent. His use of fences to frame images of structures is reminiscent of what came before, but

not at all like them. His late work reveals a more luminescent image.

While suffering from arthritis he was housebound and like many other artists and photographersmade use of what was around him. He published a text called Stems before having his knee

joints replaced since his "limbs" reminded him of stems. These images display the impact oftexture which was not a feature of his older work. The images also remind one of Josef Sudek,

who also did much photography from within the confines of his home and studio.

Friedlander feels that his texts are even more important to his body of work than are hisexhibitions. The photographs can all be seen in close proximity and one after another. He shot

primarily with a Leica M series 35mm camera until the early 1990's at which point he switchedto a medium format Hasselblad Superwide. In 2005 Friedlander was the subject of a major

retrospective with a corresponding catalog at the Museum of Modern Art. In the same year hewas the recipient of the 2005 Hasselblad International Award. Friedlander is represented in

New York by Janet Borden, Inc. and in San Francisco by Fraenkel Gallery.

Select Timeline

y 1962 - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowshipy 1977 - National Endowment for the Arts Granty 1977 - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowshipy 1977 - Mellon Chair, Rice University, Houston, Texas.y 1978 - National Endowment for the Arts Granty

1980 - Friends of Photography Peer Awardy 1980 - National Endowment for the Arts Granty 1981 - Medal of the City of Parisy 1986 - Edward MacDowell Medal.y 1990 - John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Awardy 1999 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.y 1999 - French Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.y 2004 - Doctor of Fine Arts, Yale University.


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y 2005 - Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography.Select Exhibitions

y 1998 - Fraenkel Gallery San Franciscoy

1994 - Museum of Modern Art NYy 1994 - One Hundred Years of Street Photography, Wright State U. Dayton, Ohioy 1993 - In Camera, Museum of Fine Artsy 1993 - Museum of New Mexico Santa Fey 1993 - Institute for Contemporary Art Bostony 1991 - Museum of Modern Art NYy 1991 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Franciscoy 1990 - Fraenkel Gallery San Franciscoy 1989 - Seattle Art Museum, Seattley 1978 - Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960, Museum of Modern

Art NY

y1967 - Twelve Photogaphers Toward a Social Landscape, Rose Art Museum Waltham,MA

y 1967 - New Documents, Museum of Modern Art NYy 1964 - The Photogapher's Eye, Museum of Modern Art NY

Select Artwork

y Texas, 1965y Washington, D.C.y Baltimore, 1962y Terrytown, 2001y

Las Vegas, 2002y Tetons, 1999y Lake Louise, 2000y Wisconsin, 2000

Quotes

y "It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditativephotographer. 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 andthe pictures are staring at you."

y "I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials. But I neverdreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much

more mundane."

Publications

y "The Desert Seen - by Lee Friedlander, Zzdap Publishing (October 1996)"y "Apples and Olives - by Lee Friedlander, Fraenkel Gallery (September 30, 2005)"


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y "Lee Friedlander: Sticks And Stones: Architectural America - by Lee Friedlander, JamesEnyeart, Charles Rivers Publishing Co. (October 15, 2004)"

y "Lee Friedlander: Cherry Blossom Time in Japan - by Lee Friedlander, Fraenkel Gallery(September 1, 2006)"

y "Friedlander - by Lee Friedlander, Museum of Modern Art (June 2005)"Quick Facts

y Friedlander studied photography at the Art Center of Los Angeles.y His early work was influenced by Eugene Atget, Robert Frank, and Walker Evans.y Friedlander's style focused on the "social landscape"y In 2005, the Museum of Modern Art displayed a major retrospective of Friedlander

works.

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