Born in 1934 in Aberdeen, Washington, USA. Lives and works in New York City, USA.

Lee Friedlander began photographing the American social landscape in 1948. With an ability to organize a vast amount of visual information in dynamic compositions, Friedlander has made humorous and poignant images among the chaos of city life, dense natural landscape, and countless other subjects. In 2005, Friedlander was the recipient of the prestigious Hasselblad Award as well as the subject of a major traveling retrospective and catalogue organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2010, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York exhibited the entirety of his body of work, America by Car. In 2017, Yale University Art Gallery exhibited and published the some of his earliest work, 1957 photographs of participants of the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Washington, D.C.

Friedlander’s works are represented in international collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, USA; George Eastman Museum, Rochester, USA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA; San Francisco Museum of Art, USA; Whitney Museum of American Art, USA, among many others.