A Portrait of American Housing
Lee Friedlander’s photographs of beauty queens and real estate
by Annie Lowrey
Oct 23, 2023
2 minutes
Lee Friedlander coined a term for the subject of his work: the “social landscape.”
The great American documentary photographer, now 89, gives each rowhouse and strip mall and mass-produced car a living and breathing personality. He frames places so as to imbue them with strangeness, movement, intrigue. He often makes what would normally be the background of a photograph the subject of characters.
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