Lee Friedlander: Life Still

<p><b>Lee Friedlander’s latest monograph captures the irony and complexity of American life, past and present.</b><br></p><p>How does the United States seem, at once, so small and big, quiet and loud, phony and true? In his first Aperture monograph, <i>Life Still</i>, Lee Friedlander (born in Aberdeen, Washington, 1934) reimagines the presentation of his oeuvre at age ninety-one, bringing together rarely seen and unpublished images from the past sixty years alongside new work to stage a visual dialogue between past and present. Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Hua Hsu observes how these stubborn paradoxes of the American consciousness— the irony, humor, and self-conflict—remain as vivid today as they always have been. By seeing contradictions in the commonplace, Friedlander presents us with a book of enduring riddles about American culture. <br></p>