Lee Friedlander is well-known for his portraits of American social life and the environment, where he uses his surroundings as a subject. His ability to capture exact moments in his photographs translates into a piece of artwork. His photographs are seamlessly unplanned, leaving the viewer an awe of each image, making for great photography. His impulsiveness to readily capture whatever catches his eye shows the strength of his work. When Friedlander engages in a photograph, he focuses on impetuous periods of time and how they influence the surroundings. Similar to Cartier Bresson, Friedlander is more concerned with the unusual and strangely captivating moments occurring in daily life. He preferred to work with smaller cameras because it allowed him to see moving subjects and to quickly move with them. The people in his photographs are oddly blotted and cropped out suggesting a sense of change. Friedlander’s photographed the American flag in a window’s storefront because he felt it was displayed in an unusual place. In the photograph, a foot appeared showing that events can happen at any given time within a photograph.
Moreover, he wanted that foot in the frame, leaving the viewer to wonder whose foot those are in that photograph. However, Friedlander appears in most of his photographs. I completely understand why he would appear in his photographs because a lot of time as photographer you try to avoid yourself and your shadows if you can help it. Subsequently, it works for Lee Friedlander because he saw it as a benefit by being a part of the landscape within his photographs. In addition to that, his photographs are somewhat less of a statements than questions. His photographs also doesn’t implied the absurd but since it’s out there he photographs that to. In conclusion, I understand his view-point in the way he sees his subject and how he photographs them. Like, Friedlander, I do not plan my photographs I just shoot as I go.
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