6 Photographers on Lee Friedlander’s Timeless Influence

For over seventy years, Lee Friedlander has been one of photography’s most celebrated and enduring figures. His keen ability to capture the intersections of public and private space, with wit and formal complexity, has taught us to see a vast collective unconscious—revealing the dreams, desires, and delusions hidden in the markers of the everyday world. His disorienting visions of street scenes, storefronts, signage, and, on occasion, himself have inspired generations of photographers and filmmakers alike.

In his latest monograph, Life Still, his first collaboration with Aperture, Friedlander playfully reimagines the presentation of his oeuvre at age ninety-one, bringing together rarely seen and unpublished images from the past sixty years alongside new work to stage a visual dialogue between past and present. Here, six photographers reflect on how Friedlander’s photographs continue to resonate and endure.

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