It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and I make it. If I had a chance, I'd be out shooting all the time. You… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions. — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest. — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a picture and… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
When you take a picture you haven't a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a clue but… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world. — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU. — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'. — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
