Lee Friedlander

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Image courtesy of KBr Fundación MAPFRE

Across his career Lee Friedlander has offered the world far-reaching artistic output, recording what he called in the 1960s, the “American social landscape." The exhibition, which covers his entire body of work in chronological order, emphasizes some of his most significant projects such as The Little Screens, The American Monument, and America by Car, as well as a group of photographs taken in Spain during the 1960s, which is on public display for the first time.

The photographer broke away from traditional means of representation and looked to popular culture for inspiration in the 1960s by incorporating the mundane into his repertoire. He created confusing visual arguments to shake the viewer with a sense of irony derived from the juxtapositions of seemingly unconnected objects and ideas, in contrast with the seriousness of previous documentary photographers.

Don’t miss this in-depth exploration of his work at Barcelona’s Fundación MAPFRE.

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