Lee Friedlander: The Street

Friedlander’s street is a metaphor for the American social landscape. Flattening a dynamic space into a photographic image, people and objects are reflected in windows and mirrors, framed by lamp posts and doors, creating new relationships and narratives. 

Black-and-white photograph of a man and woman entering and exiting a building with their faces obscured by doors
Black-and-white photograph of a man in a suit standing in the street in front of a. building with a question mark painted on it
Black-and-white photograph of a city street with a telephone pole in the center
Black-and-white photograph of cut outs of a man and woman taped in a window with palm trees in the reflection
Black-and-white photograph of a man with laying his head on a table through the window of a storefront
Black-and-white photograph of a woman standing behind a glass door
Black-and-white photograph of a man and woman looking out of the frame with binoculars with reflections in the glass wall behind them
Black-and-white photograph of JFK on screen at a drive in theater
Black-and-white photograph of a man looking out the window of an ice cream parlour
Black-and-white photograph of the shadow of a persons head on the back of a woman
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