

The resulting photos appeared in the magazine that fall as a photo essay titled “ Blush, Sweat, and Tears,” and they’re now being revisited by the new book Dressing Up, published by the Yale University Art Gallery.įar from being just a fashion photographer, Friedlander is best known for his piercing photographs of everyday life - and his work has, for the most part, avoided the glamorous. In an interview with the woman who commissioned the assignment - the magazine’s photography director, Kathy Ryan - that appears in the book, Friedlander claims that sending him to photograph Fashion Week was her idea. In 2006, The New York Times Magazine gave the legendary American photographer Lee Friedlander an unexpected assignment: Go backstage at New York Fashion Week.

Models backstage at New York Fashion Week Spring 2007.
