Christmas Through the Eyes of Photographer Lee Friedlander

“Whether or not or not you’ve celebrated Christmas at any level over the previous seventy years—roughly the interval coated by these pictures—you haven’t any doubt encountered among the issues Lee Friedlander exhibits us right here.” So begins the afterward to Lee Friedlander: Christmas, a brand new guide of holiday-related footage revealed by the Eakins Press Basis. The quantity assembles varied sorts of photos by the storied photographer who began pointing his lens at American life in 1948 and now finds himself on the age of 91.

On Friedlander’s imaginative and prescient of Christmas, the afterward, by fellow photographer Peter Kayafas, continues: “In lieu of holding forth on what meaning—which might do a disservice to the photographs—it’s value contemplating a number of issues about how Christmas in America appears to be like within the eyes of the good artist of the social panorama, as a result of, in any case, what defines a social panorama higher than the issues all of us have in widespread—by circumstance, faith, inheritance, or commerce? Just a few phrases about Friedlander’s tackle all this come to thoughts: plastic, disposable, low cost, well timed, earnest, ceremonial, elaborate, ubiquitous, unhappy, lovely, true.”

Under see some highlights from Lee Friedlander: Christmas.