Friedlander and Avedon

Richard Avedon, Lee Friedlander, 2002/Lee Friedlander, Richard Avedon, 2002

As kind of an interesting footnote, Fraenkel has both Richard Avedon's portrait of Lee Friedlander and Friedlander's portrait of Avedon (and crew) on display in its back room. What's interesting about it is that the Friedlander is priced at $7,400 and the Avedon at $38,000.

I would concede that Avedon's portrait of Friedlander is the more interesting picture. It's also bigger, and is a beautiful print. I would not concede that history will consider Avedon the more important photographer. On the other hand, I guess, he is dead.