Friedlander

About this book

Writing about The Museum of Modern Art New Yorks monumental and critically acclaimed 2005 Lee Friedlander retrospective Richard Lacayo of Time magazine said: "If a sophisticated notion of what a picture can look like the continuous construction of new avenues of feeling and sheer sustained inventiveness are the measures we go by then Friedlander is one of the most important American artists of any kind since World War II Friedlander loves the muchness of the world. He loves the haphazard multitude of things that can pop up in every picture--street signs sunbeams bits of roofline a jagged shadow--all colliding and contradicting one another. In his breezy but very acute introduction to the shows catalogue Peter Galassi MoMAs Chief Curator of Photography gets it just right when he says some of Friedlanders pictures give you the impression that the physical world had been broken into fragments and reconstituted under pressure at three times its original density."