Photographs in style of Lee Friedlander

Lee Friedlander

'Im not a premeditative photographer'

The photographs i have closely analysed are called Americas Social Landscapes, Where i found a lot of the imagery used repetition with different line and shapes. His imagery uses leading lines and he likes to include himself in the photographs he takes. 

One of the series of images he did was called 'America By car' where he took photographs every day, in rental cars in 50 different states where he took the images from inside his car. Lee Friedlander includes himself in his images, as he likes being a part of his work to show he was there, he shows he is a part of the image through shadows and reflections where you can either see him actually there with the camera or even just through a shadow with part of his body shown on the ground or wall. Which a lot of the time you may look at images and think, is the photographer a part of it? and I would always think no as there is no show of them in the image, but in this case, I like the fact the photographer wants to be a part of the work they produce, to show they were there for the events.

There are themes shown through his imagery. Which include Identity, Self Conciousness, Framing, Shadow and composition control. One of the images he took was to show hidden identity, as he takes the image and you can see his shadow on the women's body but the viewers and him know that the women is not aware of the image being taken, which is a juxtaposition. All his images show lines and reflections and him trying to complete incomplete shapes.

The images above are 3 successful images me and my group took in style of Lee Friedlander, as we are showing we are apart of the images. We took the images in the picture style of Black and White, we included Reflections and Shadows. One of the images we even showed our faces which is really revealing our identity

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