Lee Friedlander PT.2

 Joe Seck

10/31/2022

Art 240


Lee Friedlander

  

      I have already covered Friedlander but, I wanted to take another look at his images as I found his style to be very interesting. Looking at the image above this self-portrait was taken with a lightbulb in front of his face and I feel the facial expression he is using is perfect almost as if he is lost in the lightbulb. I then started to think about what is the symbolism of a lightbulb. I thought of the lightbulb being used as an allegory for an idea like a lightbulb pops up in your head when you get an idea, so maybe Friedlander is using the lightbulb to be lost in a thought or lost in an idea, which is super interesting.

       

    Something I have noticed while going through Friedlander's work, especially his self-portraits he uses reflections and shadows very well and makes his images super interesting. In this image, he is using his reflection to take this self-portrait with the lamp almost covering his face. The reflection enhances the image because it creates a point of interest as well as the place where my eyes imminently went to. The reflection also has a very good background with the sky and the clouds in the back as well as the buildings, cars, and the woman in the background of the image and I feel all of these things add to the image. 


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