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At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.
Lee Friedlander
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Lee Friedlander
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 14
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University Teacher
Visual Artist
New York City
New York
Lee Norman Friedlander
Friedlander Lee Norman
Lee Freedlander
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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.
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The West to me is where the landscape is.
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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.
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I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.
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Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting.
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I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.
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You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.
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The world makes up my pictures, not me.
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... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.
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It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you.
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... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.
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I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.
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With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.
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