Leo Friedlander

Leo Friedlander spent most of his career pointing a camera at buildings, favoring the way light slides off brick and steel at odd hours. He once waited three days for the right late-afternoon slant to catch the United Nations Secretariat in New York, and you can still feel that patience in the stillness of the print. His work belongs in Gallery Tiles because one of those patient frames, a black-and-white shot of the UN plaza in the 1950s, lets you step right into the era without a single word.