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People Working
I enjoy photographing a lot. There's hardly a subject I'm not interested in. Over the years I especially have enjoyed photographing people at work. There's something about their concentration I understand and feel connected to.
The Gund project and Cleveland made available the people and the places of work in varied situations, and I immediately was interested to work there too. So, it was indeed a happy sort of marriage. One could spend a lifetime in Cleveland photographing people working. It has such a vast industry with endless different jobs and workplaces. Cleveland, like most of the middle of our country, makes what we all need.
About Lee Friedlander
Born 1934, Aberdeen, Washington
Lives in New City, New York Ordinary subject matter becomes memorable when recorded through the unique vision of Lee Friedlander. For more than forty years, he has documented what he describes as "the American social landscape and its conditions" in an understated and distanced manner, frequently enriched by irony and ambiguity. Since the late 1970s, Friedlander has been observing people working, intuitively responding to each environment with images that are full of visual detail and dramatic richness.
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