Glen E. Friedman
Lives New York, NY

Glen E. Friedman is the most significant photographer of his generation. His images of the early Dogtown skateboarders in the late 1970s and early 1980s along with the burgeoning hip-hop and punk rock scenes have made him one of the most important photographers today. With the uncanny ability to capture images of people whose subculture was about to change the world, his subjects range from Jay Adams and Tony Alva to Run DMC and the Beastie Boys to Minor Threat and Black Flag, among many others. Over the years, Friedman has been able to define the moments of the movements that defined an era. This has cemented his place in history as an uncompromising, extremely gifted artist.

Friedman’s touring exhibition Fuck You All premiered in 1997 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, England. Since then it has been exhibited overseas in Sydney, Australia, Harajuku and Shibuya, in Tokyo Japan, Florence, Milan, Sicily, and Rome in Italy, Berlin, Germany and Stockholm, Sweden. Stateside, shows have been in Chicago, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia. Friedman has had books of his work published including Fuck You Heroes, Fuck You Too and The Idealist; all of which are in multiple pressings. In 2002, he released his latest book with mentor C.R. Stecyk III titled Dogtown - The Legend of the Z-Boys that was inspiration to the award winning documentary film Dogtown and Z-Boys that Friedman co-produced.

The Idealist exhibition premiered at sixspace on March 6, 2004. In addition to never-before shown photographs that are a departure from his traditional role of subculture recorder and more of an introduction to his fine art images, this show acted as the official release for the second, and updated, verson of The Idealist book. It also marked the third exhibition with Friedman and sixspace.

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