Blog Lee Freidlander

 

This is the photograph by Lee Freidlander that I chose to talk about. I chose this one because unlike most of the photos thus far it is one that I have kind of taken before. I think everyone who starts out with a film camera does at least one photo of themselves in a mirror or a reflection where you are holding the camera and maybe waving at the audience. I took one of these types of photos at the AC. I think I even took another one similarly somewhere else. What got me interested were the aspects of this photo that differed from mine. Using specifically a wardrobe mirror in a bedroom makes this kind of photo more intimate and personal feeling. There's also something to be said about the mask. Perhaps it is speaking to a kind of anonymity in photography, but it gives off an uncanny and unsettling feel whatever the purpose is.