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Leonard Freed
Williamsburg, New York City, Jewish, Street Photography 1950s, Limited Edition

1954

$2,200
£1,657.92
€1,937.07
CA$3,121.97
A$3,131.02
CHF 1,816.42
MX$38,225.64
NOK 21,039.30
SEK 21,532.30
DKK 14,481.43

About the Item

Capturing the Jewish diaspora and the Hasidic community in Brooklyn, New York in the 1950s, this is a subject which Jewish American photographer Leonard Freed from Brooklyn widely covered. Williamsburg, New York City, USA 1978 is a 13" x 9" archival pigment print (on baryta) in a limited edition of 5. Signed verso (back of photo) by Brigitte Freed (wife of the photographer), with Leonard Freed's copyright stamp also verso, the print is edition number 4/5. American photographer Leonard Freed enjoyed documentary storytelling and was a "concerned photographer" whose work demonstrated humanitarian concerns. Provenance: Freed archive *** Artist’s Bio: Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian, a social documentary photographer. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police department (1972-79). Freed's coverage of the American civil rights movement is well-known as are his photo essays on New York, Italy, Germany, The Kate Series, among others.

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