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Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander, born in 1934, began photographing the American social landscape in 1948. Friedlander has made humorous and poignant images among the chaos of city life, dense natural landscape, and countless other subjects.  Friedlander produced series that sought to capture urban life while playing with spatial depth, reflections, and shadows.  Friedlander is also recognized for a group of self-portraits he began in the 1960s, reproduced in Self Portrait, an exploration that he turned to again in the late 1990s. The book I pick is his Self Portrait. He took a lot of pictures of himself through the mirrors, windows and took pictures of his shadow. These self-portraits span a period of six years and were not done as a specific preoccupation. He began as a straight portrait as soon as he found himself in the landscape of his photography. These pictures came slowly and not with plan. He would see himself as a character or an element that that would shift presence as his work would change in direction. He suspects it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue.



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