{"data":{"id":"465","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":465,"topgoose_id":2248,"tms_id":465,"display_name":"Lee Friedlander","sort_name":"Friedlander Lee","display_date":"1934–","begin_date":"1934","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp\u003eLee Friedlander developed a passion for photography and jazz as a teenager in the Pacific Northwest. After high school he spent several years in Los Angeles before moving to New York, where he worked from 1955 until the early 1970s as a freelance photographer, traveling and shooting primarily for magazines and the burgeoning record industry. During that time he also produced an independent body of work—a reflection of what he has called the “American social landscape”— that has made him one of the most influential photographers of his generation.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotographing people, objects,\nstreets, and the landscapes around him,\nFriedlander often shoots without a\npreconceived project in mind, later compiling\nhis photographs into books. Among the\nforty or so such volumes produced thus far,\nfive have been devoted to self-portraits,\nsome of them disarmingly direct and others,\nsuch as\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"/collection/works/20544\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eColorado, Self-Portrait with\nJFK\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, notably incorporating only his shadow\nor reflection. Here, as in many works by\nFriedlander, it is the unexpected that is most\ncompelling. Friedlander includes subtly\ndisparate and surprising elements in his\nlight-infused, black-and-white photographs.\nThe clarity and directness of his images\nare reminiscent of Eugène Atget and \u003ca href=\"/artists/4831\"\u003eWalker\nEvans\u003c/a\u003e, and the cool frankness and ironic\ntouch of humor call to mind a Pop aesthetic.\nYet it is Friedlander’s distinctly personal\nvision—a rare blend of nonchalance,\nkeen observation, and wit—that makes his\nwork remarkable.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":false,"artport":false,"biennial":false,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500014327","wikidata_id":"Q711391","created_at":"2017-08-30T17:14:15.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-04-27T01:30:35.554-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/465/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/465/exhibitions"}}}}