For many years, three giants of photography headed west, to the American deserts, to take pictures and share camaraderie: Lee Friedlander, the American master photographer, Richard Benson, the great ...

Nevermind Walter Benjamin’s pronouncements on art and mechanical reproduction. SFMoMA’s Lee Friedlander retrospective will quickly convince you that the original remains king. Friedlander’s early ...

The American photographer was ‘adept at turning any scrap of junk into a lavish puzzle’ as these beguiling images of chain link fences and roadside signs shows ...

Perhaps, but if he did we probably could not tell, so completely has his work redefined, for those who know it, the sense of what makes a picture worth taking. If his retrospective, opening today at ...

On his many trips across the United States, Lee Friedlander has famously documented the social landscape and tapestry of the country in his own inimitable, unique way. For more than half a century, ...

The photographer Lee Friedlander once said in an interview, “Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust.” He added, “The pictures make me realize that ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1788): It’s easy to become discouraged about the effectiveness of public protest­—until you look back at how much it has mattered in changing American life. That came home to me this ...

Lee Friedlander coined a term for the subject of his work: the “social landscape.” The great American documentary photographer, now 89, gives each rowhouse and strip mall and mass-produced car a ...

The April 30 auction of Fine Photographs at Swann will feature a selection of fine art, historical, and vernacular photographs spanning the full breadth of the medium with curated section of imagery ...

Later this month, "Friedlander" opens at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the second American venue on an international tour that has already taken the exhibition to Munich, Paris and Barcelona ...

This season’s bounty includes volumes on far-out artists, unusual cats and enviable gardens. By Leah Greenblatt There’s always more to a photo than what we see, as shown by standout exhibitions at ...