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“I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. 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. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds what its jaws can encompass and what the light will stain. That moment when the landscape speaks to the observer.”
(Lee Friedlander, Preface to Self Portrait, 1970)
Lee Friedlander was born in 1934 in Aberdeen, USA. At the age of 14 he began taking photographs and studied with Edward Kaminski at the Art Center School Los Angeles until 1955. Friedlander then moved to New York, where he met Diane Arbus, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand. In 1960 and 1962 he received a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation which enabled him to pursue non-commercial projects. As a representative of street photography, he dealt with urban space, photographing everyday situations and staging himself in front of the camera. In 1967, he participated in the legendary New Documents exhibition organized by John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2005, MoMA showed a comprehensive retrospective of his works. Friedlander’s photography books have long been milestones of the medium, including Self Portrait (1970), The American Monument (1976), Nudes (1991), and America by Car (2010). In 2005, he received the Hasselblad Foundation Award.
Born 1934 in Aberdeen, Washington, USA.
Lives and works in New York, USA.
Lead Award Gold Medal, MONOPOL Magazin
Lifetime Achievement Award, The International Center of Photography, Infinity Awards
Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography
Doctor of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
Doctor of Fine Arts, Yale University, Cambridge
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
French Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award
Edward MacDowell Medal
Medal of the City of Paris, France
Friends of Photography Peer Award
National Endowment for the Arts Grant
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Mellon Chair, Rice University
National Endowment for the Arts Grant
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Lee Miller in Print, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Surrealist, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia
A Photographer Between War and Glamour, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany
Joel Coen: Lee Friedlander Framed, Luhring Augustine, Chelsea, New York, USA
Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Lee Miller: Photographer, icon, surrealist ,Black Diamond, Royal Danish Library ,Copenhagen, Denmark
Lee Friedlander. Retrospective, Domus Artium 2022, Salamanca Spain
Lee Friedlander. Retrospective, Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona Spain
Lee Friedlander. Retrospective, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Lee Friedlander. Retrospective, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain
Lee Friedlander: Maria, Deborah Bell Photographs, New York, USA
Lee Friedlander in Louisiana, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Lee Friedlander: American Musicians, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Let Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Lee Miller in Print ,Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen ,Rotterdam, Netherlands
Surrealist ,Heide Museum of Modern Art ,Bulleen, Australia
A Photographer Between War and Glamour ,Bucerius Kunst Forum ,Hamburg, Germany
Lee Miller: Photographer, icon, surrealist ,Black Diamond, Royal Danish Library ,Copenhagen, Denmark
Lee Friedlander. Retrospective, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Lee Friedlander. Retrospective, Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, Spain
Lee Friedlander. At Work, FOTO/INDUSTRIA Biennial, Fondazione Del Monte, Bologna, Italy
Let Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Lee Friedlander. Street – The Human Clay, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Lee Friedlander. Western Landscapes, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Lee Friedlander. Self and Family, Fondation A Stichting, Brussels, Belgium
Lee Friedlander. The Cray Photographs, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Lee Friedlander. America by Car, Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lee Friedlander. Mannequin, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Lee Friedlander. America by Car, House of Photography, Moscow, Russia (travelling exhibition)
Lee Friedlander. Cars and The New Cars, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Lee Friedlander. Cars, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Lee Friedlander. America by Car, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Friedlander, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Factory Valleys, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
A Ramble in Olmsted Parks, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Friedlander, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Lee Friedlander / New Mexico at Andrew, Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Lee Friedlander, Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Making the Ordinary Extraordinary: Books and Photographs by Lee Friedlander, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
Preus Fotomuseum, Horten, Norway
Friedlander, Jeu de Paume, Paris, Frane
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
Fotografins Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
Friedlander, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden
Musée de L’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, Montana
Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
Lee Friedlander, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, California
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Arizona
Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
My Culture My Self, September 1999-July 2001, Ydessa Hendeles Foundation, Toronto , Canada
Center of Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Bath House, Yokohama, Japan
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Modern Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Memphis-Brooks Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California
Center For Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Hudson River Museum, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Place, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Picture Windows: Photographs From The Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia, USA
A SHOW OF AFFECTION – COLLECTION CONSTELLATION 1, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Les Belles de Nuit, Forum für Fotografir, Cologne, Germany
Cities Are For People: Street Photography, 1945-1970, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri, USA
This Is Me, This Is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
People Watching: Contemporary Photography Since 1965, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine, USA
What Are Words Worth?, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA
60 Years of Collecting: An anniversary exhibition celebrating the UMCA Permanent Art Collection, University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Snow Show, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
Influence and Identity. Twentieth Century Portrait Photography from the Bank of America Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Mix & Match. Rediscovering The Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Highlights from the Photography Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri, USA
Eine Fotografische Hommage, Forum für Photografie, Cologne, Germany
Nicola Erni: A Personal View on High Fashion & Street Style, Norton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
Omnipresent: Photographs From The MAM Collection, Missoula Art Museum, Montana, USA
MOMAT Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
New York: 1962 – 1964, The Jewish Museum New York, New York, USA
Fort he Record: Photography & the Art oft he Album Cover, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
Sculpting Reality. El estilo documental, Circulo De Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
TOP Collection: The Illumination of Life by Death, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Japan
New York: 1962-1964, The Jewish Museum New York, USA
Sculpting Reality. The Documentary Style In The Per Amor A L’art Collection, Bombas Gens Centre D’Art, Valencia, Spain
Double Elephant/ Rodeo Drive, Bombas Gens Centre D’Art, Valencia, Spain
Resonances. Fundación MAPFRE Collections, KBr Photography Center, Barcelona, Spain
Sculpting Reality. Per Amor a l’Art Collection, PhotoEspaña 2022, Círculo de Bellas Artes & Casa de América, Madrid, Spain
American Photography, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Civilization: The Way We Live, Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
BOOKS An exhibition of books about art and art about books, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Don’t! Photography and the Art of Mistakes, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
Fuzzy Dark Spot, Video Art from Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Civilization: The Way We Live, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Civilization: The Way We Live, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
No Time, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, California
The Flâneur. From Impressionism to the Present, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Streetwise, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Doing the Document. Photographs from Diane Arbus to Piet Zwart. The Bartenbach Donation, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
[SPACE] Street. Life. Photography. Seven Decades of Street Photography, Triennial of Photography, House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
The Beauty of Lines. Masterpieces from the Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla collection, Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne, Switzerland
The American Dream – American Realism 1945-2017, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany and Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands
Autophoto, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Proof: Photographs from the Collection, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Digital Conditions, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany
Lee Friedlander. Photographs & Pierre Bonnard. Drawings, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Double Elephant 1973-74: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Lee Friedlander. Photographs & Pierre Bonnard. Drawings, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Jazz Lives: The Photographs of Lee Friedlander and Milt Hinton, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Augen Auf! 100 Jahre Leica Fotografie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Now You See It: Photography and Concealment, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Artificial Light: Flash Photography in the 20th Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Rush And Calm. Moments In The City, Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
Road Trip, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Mémoires Vives 1984-2014 : 30 ans pour l’art contemporain, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
American Street – Seventy Years of a Photographic Tradition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
30x: Three Decades, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California
Von Beckmann bis Warhol. Die Sammlung Bayer, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
True Stories, Amerikanische Fotografie aus der Sammlung Moderne Kunst, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Der Mensch und seine Objekte, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Picturing The Artist, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Photography Calling!, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Deichtorhallen, Sammlung Falckenberg, Phoenix Hallen, Hamburg, Germany
Hyper Real – Kunst und Amerika um 1970, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany (travelling exhibition)
EXPOSED – Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Hyper Real – Kunst und Amerika um 1970, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria (travelling exhibition)
Summer Loves, Huis Marseille, Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Masters of Photography, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen, Belgium
Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Eugène Atget & Lee Friedlander. Parks and Trees, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Tunnel Vision, Fotomuseum Provincie Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Garry Winogrand and the Street Photographers (Mitch Epstein, Lee Friedlander, Joel Meyerowitz, Henry Wessel), Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany
The Eye Club, San Francisco, California
A City Seen, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Last Great Places, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The New Frontier: Art and Television, 1960-65, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas and Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
Le Desert, Cartier Foundation, Paris, France
1994 One Hundred Years of Street Photography, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
In Camera, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Three on Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Twelve Photographers Toward a Social Landscape, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
New Documents (with Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand), Museum of Modern Art, New York
Toward a Social Landscape, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
The Photographer’s Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Lee Friedlander. Street: The Human Clay, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Lee Friedlander. Photographs & Pierre Bonnard. Drawings, exh. cat., Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany
Lee Friedlander. Dressing Up, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Lee Friedlander. The Human Clay: Portraits, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Lee Friedlander. The Human Clay: Children, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Lee Friedlander. Family in the Picture, 1958-2013, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Lee Friedlander. Playing for the Benefit of the Band: New Orleans Music Culture, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Lee Friedlander. The Printed Picture, Pratt Institute, New York
Lee Friedlander. JFK: A Photographic Memoir, Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Lee Friedlander. The Nudes: A Second Look, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, New York
Lee Friedlander. Mannequin, New York
Lee Friedlander. True Stories, exh. cat., Munich, Germany
Lee Friedlander. The New Cars 1964
Lee Friedlander. In the Picture: Self-Portraits, 1985 – 2011, New Haven, Connecticut
America by Car. Lee Friedlander, New York
Lee Friedlander. Witness # 6, Nazraeli Press
Eugène Atget & Lee Friedlander. Parks and Trees, exh. cat., Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Lee Friedlander / New Mexico, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Friedlander, Lee. Photographs: Landscapes, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Lee Friedlander. Cherry Blossom Time in Japan, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Friedlander, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Lee Friedlander. Apples and Olives, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California
Lee Friedlander. Sticks and Stones, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and DAP, New York
Lee Friedlander. Family, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and DAP, New York
Lee Friedlander. Stems, DAP, New York
Staglieno, Nazraeli Press, Portland
Lee Friedlander. At Work, DAP, New York
Lee Friedlander. The Little Screens, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Lee Friedlander, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Lee Friedlander. American Musicians, DAP, New York
Lee Friedlander. Self Portrait, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and DAP, New York
Lee Friedlander. Desert Seen, DAP, New York
Lee Friedlander. Letters from the People. DAP, New York
Lee Friedlander. The Jazz People of New Orleans. Pantheon, New York
Lee Friedlander. Maria, Smithsonian Press, Massachusetts
Lee Friedlander. Nudes, Pantheon, New York
Like a One-Eyed Cat: Photographs by Lee Friedlander 1956-1987, Abrams & Seattle Art Museum, New York
Cray at Chippewa Falls. Cray Research, Minnesota
Cherry Blossom Time in Japan. Haywire Press, New York
Lee Friedlander. Portraits. Graphic Society, New York
Lee Friedlander. Factory Valleys. Haywire Press, New York
Lee Friedlander. Flowers and Trees. Haywire Press, New York
Lee Friedlander. Photographs. Haywire Press, New York
Lee Friedlander. The American Monument. Eakins Press, New York
Lee Friedlander. Self-Portrait. Haywire Press, New York
Work from the Same House (in conjunction with Jim Dine), Trigram Press, London, UK
The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Memphis
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia Art Museums, Charlottesville, Virginia
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Samek Art Museum, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography, San Marcos, Texas
Marywood University Art Gallery, Scranton, Pennsylvania
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Center for Creative Photography – University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland
National Gallery of Canada, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Musée d’Unterlinden, Colmar
FRAC – Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Fondation Francès, Senlis, France
Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France
SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
Yokohama Museum of Art, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
KMS Fine Art Group, Baar, Switzerland
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