... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.
Lee FriedlanderThe idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure, confusing to others. It's a swell word I've always liked. It probably came about because it describes a basic fact of photography. In a snap, or small portion of time, all that the camera can consume in breadth and bite and light is rendered in astonishing detail: all the leaves on a tree, as well as the tree itself and all its surroundings.
Lee Friedlander... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.
Lee FriedlanderI 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 my reason and motive for making photographs.
Lee Friedlander