Blog #2 Lee Friedlander

    Lee Friedlander was a photographer that focused in what looks to be primarily black and white landscapes and portraits whether it be from people to just his own reflections. At first, it looks like he just captures the basic daily life of a tourist, in a way, because he captures raw photos with shadows so you have a big contrasts in the grayscales with many landscapes in the back. However with Lee Friedlander's photos, I noticed that he commonly likes to capture two things at once as well, but his composition and the way he always has shadows it makes it look perfect and obviously super professional.

 

    In this photograph, you can see Lee taking a picture of the reflection of himself along with the tv showing in front of him. He captures what a daily life would be here. It feels like he is just capturing the new inventions in front of him, but also wants himself to be known as the creator. In this you can see kind of an emphasis on the tv, although he wants you to look at himself, to give the viewer a lot to see but with a main focus.

       You can tell Lee Friedlander likes taking pictures that include the landscape of the city. However, in this one I love the way he kind of looks like a creep with the shadow looming over the woman's back. The contrast with the brightest part of his picture gives that shadow the pop and the emphasis he needs to catch the viewers attention. He sort of uses a rule of thirds with having the more emphasized parts of the photo, the back of the woman and his shadow, being on the left and the landscape with cars on the right. He also has nice depth with he difference between the traffic being further and the woman being super close up.