"I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs. The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks with a twisted tongue. Witness is borne and puzzles come together at the photographic moment which is very simple and complete. The mind-finger presses the release on the silly machine and it stops time and holds what its jaws can encompass and what the light will stain. That moment when the landscape speaks to the observer."
(Lee Friedlander, Preface to "Self Portrait", 1970)
2008
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Lee Friedlander: A Ramble in Olmsted Parks
January 22 – May 11, 2008
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Friedlander
February 23 - May 18, 2008
2007
CaixaForum - Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
Preus fotomuseum, Horten, Norway
2006
Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
Fotografins Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
2005
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden
2003
SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
2001
Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
2001, 2000, und 1996
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1994
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1993
Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston
1991
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco und Museum of Modern Art, New York
1990
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1989
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
1986
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2000
"Eugene Atget, the pioneer", The Patrimoine Photographique at the Hotel de Sully
1994
"One Hundred Years of Street Photography" Wright State University, Dayton (Ohio)
1993
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe und "In Camera" Museum of Fine Arts
1978
"Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960" Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
"New Documents" Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
"The Photographer's Eye" Museum of Modern Art, New York
Selected Public Collections:
Art Institute of Chicago
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson
Fogg Museum, Cambridge
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts
Museum Ludwig, Köln
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
New Orleans Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
