Self-Portrait
1964/1969
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 19.2 x 12.7 cm (7 9/16 x 5 in.) mount: 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2001.22.104
Art Historical Context
Lee Friedlander's *Self-Portrait* (4/1969) is a compelling gelatin silver print, capturing the artist's introspective gaze within his signature style of street photography. Created from a 1964 negative printed around 1969, this image measures just 19.2 x12.7 cm, close viewing on its larger 35.6 x 27.9 cm mount. Housed in the National Gallery Art's photography department (CPH) through the Patrons' Permanent, it exemplifies mid-20th-century American photographic innovation. Friedlander, a pivotal figure in post-war photography, rose to prominence in the 1960s alongside contemporaries like Garry...
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...