Lee Friedlander's Christmas in Black and White

Lee Friedlander's Christmas in Black and White

From Santas protesting on Fifth Avenue to plastic Nativity scenes, a new coffee-table book collects Lee Friedlander’s pictures of the holidays in America By Carolina de Armas “Photographs are so loaded with information,” Lee Friedlander has said, “you get both the tree and the forest.” Media-shy and sparing with explanations, the American photographer was born in 1934 in Aberdeen, Washington, and began snapping pictures at 14. Fractured reflecti…