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Image from Lee Friedlander: Life Still (Aperture, 2026). © 2026 Lee Friedlander. Courtesy Lee Friedlander; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Luhring Augustine, New York.
Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields. Those accomplishments don’t end upon induction, however. In this week’s APS Member News Digest, read about comedic photography, storytelling and its relation to history, and whether leaders make a difference.
- Lee Friedlander (APS 2007) was featured in The New York Times in an extended profile of his photography career, “Lee Friedlander Is Funny. Seriously”
- Ken Burns (APS 2011) recently sat down with author Laura Knoy on New Hampshire Public Radio for a discussion of history, storytelling, and divisions in the United States
- Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Make a Difference? by Jared Diamond (APS 1988) was named as one of The Guardian’s “biggest books this autumn”