Lee Friedlander

As a visiting artist at the Neiman Center, Lee Friedlander produced a refined portfolio of 15 photogravures based on photographs he took at the Staglieno Cemetery near Genoa, Italy. His images capture the still faces, quiet gestures and frozen motion of stone funerary sculptures while the technique of photogravure highlights the rich contrasts of his black and white photographs.

Friedlander (b. 1934) is among the most esteemed contemporary American photographers of the last half century. He has received several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, is a three-time recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and has been honored with a MacArthur award. He was the first photographer to receive the MacDowell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. Friedlander was a pioneer in photographing what he calls "the American social landscape," and his work is best known for its formal innovation and complexity. His photographs have been exhibited in many solo shows internationally, including a major retrospective of his work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York  in 2005, and are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 

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