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January 2, 2012
This is a portrait of Lee Friedlander with his Hasselblad Superwide by Richard Avedon from this session.
Richard Avedon, Lee Friedlander, 2002
I've been digging around in Friedlander's bush and tree series. These are complex compositions of tangled brush and tree branches — often at the front of the picture plane. The image has some kind of blocked view, often with some specimen shrub right in front, poking its twiggy fingers right in your eye. The view is constantly frustrated, obstructed, obfuscated, to the point that we feel hemmed in, trapped by the forest, attacked at every angle by layers of trees and underbrush;
Lee Friedlander, New Landscape - Cochise Stronghold, 2000
In this body of work Friedlander has deconstructed the landscape, reconnected to the perspective from the ground, and found satisfaction in the first-hand experience of being altogether insignificant.
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