His career stretching over more than forty years, Friedlander (1934) can be seen as one of the most influential American photographers. In the Aa-kerk a selection of his street photography and nude photography can be seen. Friedlander was one of the first photographers who chose strange, dismal parts of American landscapes as subject for his photography. His street scenes appear to be casual, but are in fact complicated compositions, offering the viewer new ways of looking at the world around him. The nude photographs are the result of a silent, and almost obsessive urge to capture the naked female body as it really is. Friedlander photographed women in strange poses and from unusual angles. The images show models looking varyingly seductive, frightened, sleepy and musingly into the camera. Friedlander did not use models in his photographs, but normal, reasonably well-shaped women marked by acne, bruises, fat, varicose veins, moulds and other common flaws.