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| | | Lee Friedlander: ChristmasAfterword by Peter Kayafas.
 With a healthy sprinkle of plastic and tinsel, Friedlander's visions of a commercial, uniquely American Christmas evoke both irony and nostalgiaWhether or not you celebrated Christmas at some point during the last 70 years, you have no doubt encountered many of the scenes shown here in Lee Friedlander's eclectic black-and-white documentation of the holiday season across America. From city sidewalks to cookie-cutter suburbs, Friedlander captures it all: main street store window displays; plastic nativities on snow-covered lawns; inflatable snowglobes and Santa Clauses; questionable St. Nicholas–themed lingerie; oversize or underwhelming Christmas trees; and houses so covered in string lights as to demand nothing short of a miracle from the local power grid.
As in all of his work, Friedlander's images of Christmas reflect his own version of the holiday. Is Christmas in America a religious celebration? A commercial precept? A misunderstanding? An indulgent blasphemy? Or all of the above? The only certain thing is that December 25 has provided an opportunity for the people's photographer to hold up a mirror to a flawed, inventive, preoccupied and wonderful society.
Lee Friedlander (born 1934) has published more than 60 monographs since 1969. He was represented alongside Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand in the 1967 New Documents exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, now understood as a landmark event in American documentary photography, and received his own retrospective at the same museum in 2005. He has lived and worked in New York since 1956.
PRAISE AND REVIEWSThe Wall Street Journal Angelina Torre Friedlander's probing lens exposes many absurdities of yuletide traditions in a consumerist society. In a 2010 photograph, an adult store's window display features Santa-inspired lingerie. Frank, full of character and occasionally disorienting, this collection is a joyful depiction of a uniquely American quirk. Art in America Emily Watlington Classic and Christmas-y, there’s 'Lee Friedlander: Christmas,' a collection of holiday photographs by one of the medium’s greats. The Smithsonian Amy Crawford With a healthy sprinkle of plastic and tinsel, Friedlander's visions of a commercial, uniquely American Christmas evoke both irony and nostalgia. |
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| | FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/25/2025 From our point of view, there really is no better take on the holiday. Published by Eakins Press Foundation in collaboration with the photographer, Lee Friedlander: Christmas collects more than 200 iconic / anti-iconic black-and-white photographs of whatever it is that we Americans collectively do to commemorate the giving season. It’s worth noting that, “while there is critique in these photographs, there is no moral judgment,” publisher Peter Kayafas writes. “While there are anecdotes that may embarrass the viewer, they are not the construct of the photographer so much as they exist in the eye of the beholder. If you can find the high holy celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ manifested here, more power to you. If what you see instead is a revelation of our nation’s essential, quirky visual character, then you’re the audience for this book.” continue to blog | |  | Eakins Press FoundationISBN: 9780871301055
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