Friedlander: Photography

Originally organized by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York, this exhibition is the largest comprehensive retrospective ever of the work of Lee Friedlander, one of the most influential American photographers of all time. Now at the MIA, “Friedlander: Photography” follows Friedlander’s career chronologically, from the 1950s and 1960s, when he shot such famous musicians as John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin, and Miles Davis, to his expansive artistic palette and self-portraits in the 1970s and 1980s, to his natural landscapes in the 1990s. According to George Slade, guest MIA curator and director of the Minnesota Center for Photography, “Friedlander’s work is prolific, almost beyond measure, and suggests the boundlessness of American aspiration.”