Q. What is happening in this photograph?

A. Look carefully and you will see that the photographer, Lee Friedlander, has placed his own shadow on to his wife Maria. Friedlander is a master photographer whose compositions frequently involve shadows and reflections. This is a very complex portrait about intimacy, shared experience, and shared destiny.

The photograph below, also by Lee Friedlander, is of a cut out couple in a plate glass window. The reflection of the parking lot and setting sun tells a very different story here about social and personal artifice.