Friedlanders social landscape is a whos who of postwar American photographyIn the 1960s and 70s Lee Friedlander born 1934 developed his signature approach to documenting the American social landscape deadpan structurally complex blackandwhite photographs of seemingly anything anybody or anyplace that passed in front of his lens. But as he was making his name as a documentary photographer capturing the look and feel of modern American life he was also photographing his closest friends a practice he has continued throughout his long career. A slipcased set of six paperback books The Mind and the Hand presents the photographers intimate portraits of six of his best friends taken over the past five decades. The subjects each presented in their own separate volume comprise a veritable whos who of one of Americas most fertile periods in photography Richard Benson William Christenberry William Eggleston Walker Evans John Szarkowski and Garry Winogrand. Each volume begins with a relevant quote from its subject.