born July 14, 1934
self Portrait, third edition. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2005. ISBN 0-87070-338-2. By Friedlander and John Szarkowski.
Self Portrait. New City, NY: Haywire Press, 1970.
Lee Friedlanders 'self-portrait' book, might be worth to get it out again
http://simonjohnsondissertation.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/self-portrait-photographs-by-lee.html
Information about the artist: http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=2002
Other works by Friedlander in the 1960s included the series of works that appeared in Self-portrait
(1970). Contrary to the tradition of the genre Friedlander only appears
in the photographs in the most oblique way, in reflections in mirrors
and glass or merely as a shadow.
Guardian Newspaper article on self-portraits
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/22/lee-friedlander-in-picture-review
New book with 500+ photographs
Sometimes, as with the series in which his own reflection is caught in
shop windows, or his shadow on pavements and walls, he seemed to be
playing with, or sending up, the conventions of "good photography"
There is humour aplenty in his photographs, but it is knowing, at times almost cynical
It is, I guess, a self-portrait of a kind, albeit a metaphorical one
Among the most recent self-portraits is a series of him in hospital,
before and after his quadruple bypass surgery. In one, he bares the long
scar that runs down his torso, the mischievous tone replaced by a more
sombre one that caught me unawares. A life laid bare, then, but slyly
and with a self-questioning smile.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/F/friedlander/friedlander_articles2.html
dialogue exchange ON Friedlander
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/F/friedlander/friedlander_articles3.html
from his self-portraiture book
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| Lee Friedlander - Lafayette, Louisiana 1968 |
My Work may not be famous today, but one day... BY ME
Simon Johnson www.thephilosophicalphotographer.co.uk
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