Lee Friedlander: The People's Pictures /English

The People's Pictures - The saturation of our social landscape by photographs and photographers is evident from any point of view public. Photography is probably the most popular means of expression democratic that is, even more than language, it is today accessible across cultures and social classes. In some ways, This is Lee Friedlander's most enduring subject - the way citizens ordinary people interact with the world by photographing it, as well as the how these images and those constructed for advertising purposes or policies define public space. \n \nIn Lee Friedlander: The People's Pictures, we see photographs spanning six decades, most of them Geographic United States and parts of Western Europe and Asia. These images are exclusive photographs of Friedlander: they are as much about what is in front of the device as they are about redefining the medium by the photographer throughout his life. Just like his exploration of words, letters and numbers in the social landscape, these photographs of the presence of photography in the street seems inevitable in the vast Friedlander's visual orchestration of what our society looks like.\n \nBut make no mistake, Friedlander's photographs are not objective documents; they are intentional, written, playful creations and intelligent, achieved through an unprecedented collaboration with the time and space. Lee Friedlander (born 1934) has published over 50 monographs since 1969 and has exhibited extensively around the world over the past five recent decades, notably during a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2005. Friedlander lives in New York. \n \n