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Friedlander’s self-portraits draw attention to the complex, fractured, and sometimes deceptive interplay between various screens, shadows, reflections, lenses, and the surfaces of the photographs themselves. In presenting this body of work, Friedlander wrote: “I could call myself an intruder.” In Andrew Roth’s Book of 101 Books, Vince Aletti states: “Friedlander does indeed seem to hide or intrude into his own photos, like an ordinary man floating in the air, disembodied, both present and absent. Like the ephemeral figures in 19th-century spirit photographs, he appears as a shadow, a reflection, a pair of shoes, a barely discernible silhouette. Although there are a number of shots where Friedlander’s head is clearly visible in a mirror or appears directly in the frame, none is conventional or in any way constitutes a flattering self-portrait... Most of the time, however, he seems determined to step out of the frame, to avoid becoming the subject of the photograph, but simply an incidental element of the photographic phenomenon, no more significant than a ray of sunlight, a shop window, or a passing shadow.”
Published by Haywire Press, 1970
88 pages
22 × 23cm
Friedlander’s self-portraits draw attention to the complex, fractured, and sometimes deceptive interplay between various screens, shadows, reflections, lenses, and the surfaces of the photographs themselves. In presenting this body of work, Friedlander wrote: “I could call myself an intruder.” In Andrew Roth’s Book of 101 Books, Vince Aletti states: “Friedlander does indeed seem to hide or intrude into his own photos, like an ordinary man floating in the air, disembodied, both present and absent. Like the ephemeral figures in 19th-century spirit photographs, he appears as a shadow, a reflection, a pair of shoes, a barely discernible silhouette. Although there are a number of shots where Friedlander’s head is clearly visible in a mirror or appears directly in the frame, none is conventional or in any way constitutes a flattering self-portrait... Most of the time, however, he seems determined to step out of the frame, to avoid becoming the subject of the photograph, but simply an incidental element of the photographic phenomenon, no more significant than a ray of sunlight, a shop window, or a passing shadow.”
Published by Haywire Press, 1970
88 pages
22 × 23cm
