Lee Friedlander famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.
-- Lee Friedlander

#Fun #Would Be #Photographer
I suspect it is for oneâ€™s self-interest that one looks at oneâ€™s surroundings and oneâ€™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.
-- Lee Friedlander

#Wall #Silly #Simple
I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Maryâ€™s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. Itâ€™s a generous medium, photography.
-- Lee Friedlander

#Photography #Dog #Uncles
It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You don't have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at you.
-- Lee Friedlander

#Photography #Feelings #Shooting
You donâ€™t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.
-- Lee Friedlander

#Staring #Materials #Generous
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.
-- Lee Friedlander

#Photography #Self #Looks
Photography is a generous mediumâ€¦
-- Lee Friedlander

#Photography #Mediums #Generous
The West to me is where the landscape is,
-- Lee Friedlander

#Landscape #West
At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of other ideas in my photos, I was able to add a giggle to those feelings.
-- Lee Friedlander

#Ideas #Feelings #Firsts
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.
-- Lee Friedlander

#Wall #Mirrors #Tongue
I retired from everything except work.
-- Lee Friedlander

#Retired

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