Houston, Texas
Lee Friedlander
American, born 1934
1977
A black-and-white gelatin silver photograph of a cat perched at a screened window, where Friedlander elevates an ordinary domestic moment into a quiet study of composition, texture, and observation.
You're first struck by the cat's soft, silvery mass filling the foreground against the strict grid of the window screen and the blurred architectural shapes beyond, while the animal's turned head creates a sense of private pause.
This image exemplifies Friedlander's late-20th-century approach of finding formal complexity in the banal, helping to steer documentary photography toward a more intimate, reflective examination of everyday life.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
7 1/2 × 11 1/4" (19 × 28.6 cm)
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Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
549.2000
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