Lee Friedlander
http://fraenkelgallery.com/publications/apples-and-olives
http://www.artbook.com/catalog--photography--monographs--friedlander--lee.html
http://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/lee-friedlander
http://www.artbook.com/catalog--photography--monographs--friedlander--lee.html
http://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/lee-friedlander
"Lee Friedlander, born in 1934, began photographing the American social landscape in 1948. With an ability to organize a vast amount of visual information in dynamic compositions, Friedlander has made humorous and poignant images among the chaos of city life, dense landscape and countless other subjects. Friedlander is also recognized for a group of self-portraits he began in the 1960s, reproduced in Self Portrait, an exploration that he turned to again in the late 1990s, and published in a monograph by Fraenkel Gallery in 2000. Friedlander’s work was included in the highly influential 1967 New Documents exhibition, curated by John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art. Included among the many monographs designed and published by Friedlander himself are Sticks and Stones, Lee Friedlander: Photographs, Letters From the People, Apples and Olives, Cherry Blossom Time in Japan, Family, and At Work. Friedlander was the subject of a major traveling retrospective and catalog organized by the Museum of Modern Art in 2005. In 2010, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York exhibited the entirety of his body of work, America by Car."
I came across his book "Apples and Olives" at a book sale which is brilliant, simple black and white images with lots of use of contrast and tone to create depth and texture.
His images within the book almost have a sketch like/charchoal effect which makes you looks closely at the image and absorb the detail.