New York, 1997
Route 9W, New York 1967. Image courtesy of MOCA.
Buffalo, New York 1968. Image courtesy of MOCA.
Tallahassee, 1969

Books

In the Picture: Self-Portraits, 1958-2011

(Yale University Press, 2011)

Lee Friedlander

(D.A.P., 2000)

Lee Friedlander

(Fraenkel Gallery, 2000)

Lee Friedlander: Self Portrait

(MOMA, 2005)

Lee Friedlander: Self Portrait

(D.A.P., 1998)

Lee Friedlander

(Fundación Mapfre, 2020)

Like a One-Eyed Cat: Photographs by Lee Friedlander, 1956-1987

(Abrams, 1989)

Lee Friedlander

(Fundación Mapfre, 2021)

Lee Friedlander

(Pantheon Books, 1988)

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Trastevere, Rome, 1959. Image courtesy of Magnum Photos.
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