In the capstone volume of his epic series The Human Clay Lee Friedlander has created an ode to
people who work. Drawn from his incomparable archive are photographs of individuals laboring on
the street and on stage as well as in the field in factories and in fluorescent-lit offices.
Performers salespeople and athletes alike are observed both in action and at rest by
Friedlander's uncanny eye. Opera singers are caught mid-aria models primp backstage mechanics
tinker and telemarketers hustle. Spanning six decades this humanizing compilation features
over 250 photographs many appearing here for the first time in print.
