self portrait
Lee Friedlander is mainly famous for his street and reflections photography. Most of his series, was about capturing a daily task in someone life (mostly himself) by photographing reflections of himself wherever he could see himself, which in my opinion I found very ingenious; sometimes we do not realized that we are triggered by instances of seeing ourselves in any sort of reflections.
He captured those shots with so much background, that the viewer can make a story out of the picture. I also appreciate how the crude and realist way he depicts himself in those pictures; it does seem a little bit creepy at first but the from another perspective it is the perfect description of a regular Caucasian man's life.
What really threw me back and made me appreciate his work more are the Madonna's nude portraits he did for a magazine. The way he photographed her, and even for the era he did that shoot, really portrays the empowerment of women and how a female should feel at ease in her body no matter how imperfect she is. Those photographs were really controversial and some people had negative comments about either the purpose of this shoot, or even saying that Madonna was not in control of this shoot; but she was free to portray herself however she wanted in those picture and I think Lee Friedlander did a really good job in photographing her facial expression along with her body movement/gesture.
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