FRIEDLANDER, Lee - New Mexico

"Lee FRIEDLANDER has been visiting Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and northern New Mexico since the late 60s. This new volume of work presents a sequence of images made during his travels in these regions between 1995 and the present. Armed with his signature Hasselblad camera and wandering the back roads in an assortment of rental cars, FRIEDLANDER has journeyed from the Plaza of Santa Fe to adobe strewn neighborhood barrios and into the gorgeous, high-altitude desert.

In the photo book 'New Mexico', we see the same attentive curiosity that we’ve come to expect. He is a master of creating unity out of diverse shapes and complex tones in the two dimensional picture plane." (publisher's note, © Radius, 2008)

Pioneering photographer Lee FRIEDLANDER has been making images of what he calls 'the American social landscape' for more than 50 years. His influence reaches across several generations— through pivotal exhibitions such as a retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in 2005, and through his own specific feel for the book format, evident from his first monograph in 1970, 'Self-Portrait', to more recent volumes such as 'Apples & Olives', 'Cherry Blossom Time' in Japan and 'Frederick Law Olmstead Landscapes'.

About the photographer, Lee FRIEDLANDER (b. 1934):
"Lee FRIEDLANDER began photographing the American social landscape in 1948. With an ability to organize a vast amount of visual information in dynamic compositions, FRIEDLANDER has made humorous and poignant images among the chaos of city life, dense landscape and countless other subjects.
FRIEDLANDER is also recognized for a group of self-portraits he began in the 1960s, reproduced in 'Self Portrait', an exploration that he turned to again in the late 1990s, and published in a monograph by Fraenkel Gallery in 2000.

FRIEDLANDER’s work was included in the highly influential 1967 'New Documents' exhibition, curated by John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art. Included among the many monographs designed and published by FRIEDLANDER himself are 'Sticks and Stones', 'Lee Friedlander: Photographs, Letters From the People', 'Apples and Olives', 'Cherry Blossom Time in Japan', 'Family', and 'At Work'.

In 2005, FRIEDLANDER was the recipient of the prestigious Hasselblad Award as well as the subject of a major traveling retrospective and catalog organized by the Museum of Modern Art. In 2010, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York exhibited the entirety of his body of work, 'America by Car'." (© Fraenkel Gallery)

Other titles by Lee FRIEDLANDER (b. 1934) are:
'Self portrait' (re-edit 1998, 2005)
'Lee Friedlander' (2000)
'The Little Screens' (2001)
'At Work' (2002)
'Kitaj' (2002)
'New Documents'
'Staglieno' (2003)
'Stems' (2003)
'Family' (2004)
'Sticks and Stones. Architectural America' (2004)
'Lee Friedlander. The Museum of Modern Art Catalogue' (by P. Galassi, 2004)
'Lee Friedlander: Photographs, Letters From the People'
'Apples and Olives' (2005)
'Cherry Blossom Time in Japan' (2006)
'America by Car' (2008)
'Frederick Law Olmsted Landscapes' (2008)
'In the Picture. Self Portraits 1958-2011' (2011)
'Recent Western Landscape 2008-09' (2011)
'The New Cars' (2011)
'Mannequin' (2012)
'The Nudes: A Second Look' (2013)
'jfk. a photographic memoir' (2013)
'Family in the Picture 1958-2013' (2014)
'Double Elephant' (together with Manuel Alvarez BRAVO, Walker EVANS & Garry WINOGRAND, 2015)
'Street. The Human Clay' (2016)

About the author:
Emily Ballew Neff is curator of American painting and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and curator of 'The Modern West' exhibition, 2006.