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 …of characters is a startlingly unusual group. They are people held together by all sorts of bonds, traditional and alternative, yet each merits special attention. Her mothers, fathers, children, and partners are people on the edge. They represent not only those on the margins of society, but traditional people, normal folk, who somehow look just as strange through the filter of her lens. A sort of documentary history She compared herself to Noah…  … York, 1976). 6. Lee Friedlander, Trees and Flowers (Haywire Press, New City, N.Y., 1981). 7. Lee Friedlander, Portraits (New York Graphic Society, Boston and New York, 1985). 8. See Lee Friedlander, Factory Valleys (Calloway Editions, New York, 1982), and Cray at Chippewa Falls (Cray Research, Inc., Minneapolis, 1987). 9. Badger, op. cit., page 200. 10. Martha Rosler, Lee Friedlander’s Guarded Strategies, in Artforum (New York), April 1975. Page…  …terview magazine in 1983, you seemed to be aggressively rebellious against conventional fashion photographs, which are beautiful, seductive and glamorous. What kind of reaction did you get from Dianne Benson and the Interview editors? CS: Dianne Benson was very supportive, she loved it all The whole experience was great. The clothes were very inspiring, because they were theatrical. I had never seen Comme des Garcons clothes before, and I thought… INTERVIEW: “Interview with Artist Cindy Sherman – A Woman of Parts” (1997)  …d not very interesting story. But it’s typical of the history of any venture. If you’re going to start to do something you’re going to have setbacks bringing it to fruition. Any venture is a rocky road. Your education is, too. Yale: You talk about yourself rebelling against the Establishment and about the misfortunes of Depression times, but your photographs are not critical. I find them more of a glorification—glorification of … INTERVIEW: Walker Evans – “The Thing Itself is Such a Secret and so Unapproachable” (1974) | ||||||||||||||
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