WORKERS

In the capstone volume of his epic series The Human Clay, Lee Friedlander has created an ode to people who work. Drawn from his in comparable archive are photographs of individuals laboring on the street and on stage, as well as in the field, in factories and in fluorescent-lit offices. Performers, salespeople and athletes alike are observed both in action and at rest by Friedlanders uncanny eye. Opera singers are caught mid-aria, models primp backstage, mechanics tinker and telemarketers hustle. Spanning six decades, this humanizing ...[Read more]