Florida
1974
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 28.6 x 19.2 cm (11 1/4 x 7 9/16 in.) sheet: 35.4 x 27.9 cm (13 15/16 x 11 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2001.22.447
Art Historical Context
Lee Friedlander's *Florida* (1974) is a captivating gelatin silver print that exemplifies the artist's innovative approach to street photography during the 1970s. Fried, a key figure in American photography alongside contemporaries like Garry Winogrand and Diane Arbus, was renowned for his "social landscape" style—capturing the everyday chaos of urban and suburban America through dense, overlapping compositions filled with reflections, shadows, and signage. This 28.6 x 19.2 cm image, on a slightly larger 35.4 x 27.9 cm sheet, invites viewers to decipher its layered visual puzzle, a hallmark of...
About the Artist
Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander, born on July 14, 1934, in Aberdeen, Washington, to a Finnish-descended mother, Kaari Nurmi, and German-Jewish émigré father, Fritz Friedlander, discovered photography at age 14 amid a fascination with the medium's equipment. Tragedy marked his childhood when his mother died of cancer at age seven, yet he pursued his passion, earning pocket money with a camera before studying under...