Lee Friedlander

I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car.…

— Lee Friedlander

The West to me is where the landscape is,

— Lee Friedlander

... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

— Lee Friedlander

Sometimes just the facts of the matter make it interesting.

— Lee Friedlander

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…

— Lee Friedlander

It fascinates me that there is a variety of feeling about what I do. I'm not a premeditative photographer. I see a…

— Lee Friedlander

When you take a picture you haven't a clue that it is going to be what it is. Maybe you have a…

— Lee Friedlander

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…

— Lee Friedlander

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

Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because…

— Lee Friedlander

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

— Lee Friedlander

Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something…

— Lee Friedlander

The camera is not merely a reflecting pool and the photographs are not exactly the mirror, mirror on the wall that speaks…

— Lee Friedlander

[Garry Winogrand] was a bull of a man and the world his china shop.

— Lee Friedlander

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this…

— Lee Friedlander

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask…

— Lee Friedlander

At first, my presence in my photos was fascinating and disturbing. But as time passed and I was more a part of…

— Lee Friedlander

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…

— Lee Friedlander

Photography is a generous medium…

— Lee Friedlander

I retired from everything except work.

— Lee Friedlander

I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had,…

— Lee Friedlander

The world makes up my pictures, not me.

— Lee Friedlander

The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure,…

— Lee Friedlander