Who is Lee Friedlander?

lee friedlanderis an American photographer and artist from the 1960s and 70s. Lee evolved an influential and often imitated visual language of urban social landscape, with many of his photographs including fragments of store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, posters and street signs.

 

Image analysis

 

This is a black and white urban candid photograph. The black and white in this image creates strong contrasts, the black on the woman’s dress creates a strong contrast with the white zebra crossing on the road. The use of the strong contrast really allows the people to stand out and helps create a focal point for the image. This image also follows the rule of thirds as the large man on the right side of the image in on the two right intersecting focal lines. This photograph also has a sense of depth as it shows the people in the front but there is also a large group of people in the back that are also in focus.

My responses

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This was my favorite image out of my shoot and also my selected edits as it reflected Lee Friedlander work the most  and was the one I was most happy with.  This setting was perfect as the reflection from the building behind and myself where clear and it contrasted well with the mountains and the manicans in the shop window.