Lee Friedlander’s Overlooked Civil Rights Photos – The New York Times

Lee Friedlander’s Overlooked Civil Rights Photos

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The photographs in Lee Friedlander’s book “Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom” are of a subject not usually associated with him: the civil rights movement. Among his earliest and least typical images — the photographer was only 22 when he made them — they document a historic, if lesser known, event in the struggle for racial equality and justice.