Lee Friedlander was born on July 14,1934 and is an American photographer and artist.
10 Facts About Lee Friedlander
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Lee Friedlander was born in Aberdeen, Washington on July 14,1934 to Kaari Nurmi and Fritz Lee Friedlander.
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In 1960, Lee Friedlander was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to focus on his art, and was awarded subsequent grants in 1962 and 1977.
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Lee Friedlander's photographs used detached images of urban life, store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, and posters and signs all combining to capture the look of modern life.
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Lee Friedlander was then a key figure in curator John Szarkowski's 1967 "New Documents" exhibition, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York along with Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus.
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In 2005, the Museum of Modern Art presented a major retrospective of Lee Friedlander's career, including nearly 400 photographs from the 1950s to the present; it was presented again in 2008 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Lee Friedlander has said that his "limbs" reminded him of plant stems.
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Lee Friedlander began photographing parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted for a six-year commission from the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal beginning in 1988.
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Lee Friedlander's series includes New York City's Central Park; Brooklyn's Prospect Park; Manhattan's Morningside Park; World's End in Hingham, Massachusetts; Cherokee Park in Louisville, Kentucky; and Niagara Falls State Park.
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Lee Friedlander has been the subject of many of his portraits.