Father Duffy, Times Square, New York City, 1974 by Lee Friedlander Gelatin Silver Print Image: 21.8 x 32.6 cm Via: Yale University Art Gallery eCatalogue

By Mackie Healy, Art Market Views Contributor

Lee Friedlander’s survey of vehicular bound compositions, America by Car, is on view at the Whitney Museum until Nov. 28. Fans can also get a Friedlander fix in New Haven.

The Yale University Art Gallery and Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library have acquired the complete Friedlander archive along with 2,000 prints.

The archive includes all of the photographer’s negatives, contact sheets, over thirty monographs, journals, correspondence, and preliminary work prints, along with books featuring his images. Over forty thousand rolls of film chronicle his creative process since the 1950s. The gallery will display 1,800 prints taken with his hallmark Hasselblad Superwide camera.

Friedlander, born 1934, studied photography at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He moved to New York in mid-1950s, and began his career snapping portraits of jazz musicians for album covers. Recognized as one of the leading American social landscape photographers of the era, Friedlander’s signature black and white shots were featured in a 2005 retrospective at the MoMA. He represented by San Francisco’s Fraenkel Gallery.

Yale University’s Art Gallery collection contains more than 185,000 objects, including an extensive assembly of photography by masters like Friedlander, Robert Adams, Emmet Godwin, James Welling and Judith Joy Ross. Jock Reynolds has served the gallery director since 1998.