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Lee Friedlander

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Lee Friedlander

Photographer
American·b. 1934
Known for:
the American social landscape
Education:
Art Center School, Los Angeles (1953-1955)

Lee Friedlander has photographed the American landscape - its cities, highways, monuments, and social rituals - for more than sixty years, developing a visual style that incorporates reflections, obstructions, and the camera's own presence in the frame. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1990. His serial projects have encompassed jazz musicians, factory workers, and American flora.

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Kodak Tri-X 400
Kodak Tri-X 400

Kodak

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Friedlander's black-and-white work was shot primarily on Tri-X; the film's latitude suited his practice of photographing in varied lighting conditions on the street.

Product description

In production since 1954, Tri-X 400 is a black-and-white film whose grain structure, broad exposure latitude, and response to push processing made it the dominant film in photojournalism and street photography for decades.

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Friedlander has used Leica rangefinder cameras throughout his career; his use of the M3 and subsequent M bodies is documented in interviews and in retrospective accounts of his working practice at MoMA.

Product description

Introduced in 1954, the M3 was Leitz's first camera to use the M bayonet mount. Its combined viewfinder and rangefinder, with 0.91x magnification, set a standard for 35mm rangefinder design that every subsequent Leica M followed.

Hasselblad Superwide (SWC)

Hasselblad

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Used the Hasselblad Superwide for medium format work alongside his Leica

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Fixed-lens 6x6 medium format camera built around a Carl Zeiss Biogon 38mm f/4.5, produced in various iterations from 1959 through 2005 (SWC, SWC/M, 903SWC, 905SWC). Has no mirror, no meter, and no electronics. Focusing is done by estimating distance and setting it on the lens barrel, with composition through an accessory-shoe viewfinder.

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