Lee Friedlander is an American photographer and artist. In the 1960s and 70s, he worked primarily with 35mm cameras and black and white film, helping to push and evolve the visual language of urban social landscape photography. Freidlander also turned the camera on himself throughout his career, juxtaposing and imposing his own frame and shadow into his immediate environment.
According to John Szarkowski, Friedlander visibly struggles with the notion of self-portraiture, shooting himself in household mirrors and other reflective surfaces. In many of his photographs, we see shadows of figures (usually Friedlander himself) overlap and intervene into the image itself - creating a ‘dialogue’ between his own physical frame and the American Social Landscape of his time.
