Hoh Valley 359-18

Friedlander always worked in series: street images, flowers, trees, gardens, landscapes, nudes, the industrial and post- industrial environment, portraits, self-portraits. Among the important series produced by Friedlander in the late 1970's and early 1980's were a reportage about forgotten memorials to events in American history, portraits of workers in North American industrial areas threatened with unemployment, and portraits of computer operators.  He gave shape to the banality of daily life, and recorded the complexity of the American social landscape from a strong appreciation of the importance of formal values.