AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "Lee Friedlander – Just Look At It" (2005)

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Lee Friedlander: “Just Look At It” (2005)

By Rod Slemmons

Lee Friedlander was born in the logging mill town of Aberdeen, Washington in 1934. He began photographing in 1948 because of a “fascination with the equipment,” in his words. His first paid job was a Christmas card photograph of a dog for a local madam named Peggy Plus. He later a

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It has become increasingly difficult to see photographs as the visible world has been almost completely plastered over with lenticular representations of itself. Strangely, as the photograph becomes the world, it disappears — or perhaps more accurately, it loses its informative opacity