In A Third Look Joseph Maida reflects on Lee Friedlanders nudes from the 1970ampampamp8217s and 80ampampamp8217s reinterpreting this series as a cutting edge homage both to Friedlander the modernist titan of photography and to LGBTQIA bodies across gender and identity spectra.ampampamp160ampampamp10ampampamp10When curator John Szarkowski first presented Friedlanderampampamp8217s nudes in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art MoMA in 1991 he wrote that ampampamp34the qualities of generosity and openness and the habit of continual explorationof logical extemporization enlivened by an unassuming audacityampampamp34 make Friedlanderampampamp8217s nudes so ampampamp34richly and rewardingly complex.ampampamp34 Maida viewing the traits of openness exploration extemporization and audacity as queerness itself reimagined Friedlanderampampamp8217s nudes by picturing different bodies in A Third Look to converse with Friedlanderampampamp8217s. ampampamp160Maida calls their feminist reclamation of history ampampamp34a visual queering of modernist photography providing a visible reconciliation of where the canon of art photography has historically allowed us to seeampampamp34 with the broader spectrum of the human nude.