Lee Friedlander Real Estate

Lee Friedlander: Real Estate presents 155 photographs spanning 60 years of the artist's exploration of the built environment in the American social landscape. Collectively, these photographs add to one of the broadest and most nuanced visual depictions of America. Individually, they evince the sly intellectual humor and keen observations for which Friedlander is justifiably celebrated. Along the way, of course, the photographer expands our idea of what constitutes real estate, just as he compels us to recognize photography's ability to reveal essential aspects of our lives over time.

Lee Friedlander was born in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1934, and studied photography at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In 1956 he moved to New York City, which quickly became both the setting and subject of the majority of his work. Friedlander was represented alongside Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand in the 1967 New Documents exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, now understood as a landmark event in American documentary photography. Friedlander still lives and works in New York, and is represented by the Fraenkel Gallery.