Canada
Lee Friedlander
American, born 1934
1991
A gelatin silver print in which Lee Friedlander frames a solitary rock and its reflected surface so it appears to float against a sky-like plane, collapsing distance and scale.
The first impression is eerie suspension—the rock’s sharply textured mass sits amid soft, cloudlike reflections and a faint shoreline, destabilizing any clear sense of up and down.
This image exemplifies Friedlander’s late-career focus on perception and framing, using reflection and ambiguity to transform an ordinary landscape into a disorienting study that expanded documentary photography’s visual possibilities.
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
8 9/16 × 12 13/16" (21.7 × 32.6 cm)
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Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
605.2000
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