id: 171685
accession number: 2014.447
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.447
updated: 2024-08-08 15:18:19.134000
Home Damaged by Flood, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA, 1972. Leonard Freed (American, 1929–2006). Gelatin silver print; image: 15.8 x 23.9 cm (6 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.); paper: 20.3 x 25.3 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Jon and Nicky Ungar 2014.447 © Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos
title: Home Damaged by Flood, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA
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creation date: 1972
creation date earliest: 1972
creation date latest: 1972
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creditline: Gift of Jon and Nicky Ungar
copyright: © Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1951-Present
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Leonard Freed (American, 1929–2006) - artist
Born in Brooklyn to Jewish, working-class parents of Eastern European descent, Leonard Freed (1929–2006) went to Europe to become a painter but instead discovered photography. After studying the medium in New York City, he worked as a documentary photographer and photojournalist in Europe. In 1972 he joined Magnum, the celebrated collaborative photo agency. Freed’s photographs in this exhibition are from Black in White America, a series inspired by an experience he had while covering the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. As he photographed an African American soldier guarding the border, it struck Freed that this man was risking his life to defend a country that limited his own rights. Freed returned to New York to undertake a multiyear exploration of African American life. Freed began shooting around New York, and then traveled extensively throughout the South. He spent time in communities getting to know his subjects, and kept a journal recording his impressions and their stories and words. During these years, he also covered Martin Luther King Jr. and numerous civil rights events, but when Freed published Black in White America in 1968, the book focused instead on the fabric of daily life. As a photojournalist, Freed was an observer rather than a participant, but not an impartial one. He believed that “photography is about who you are. It’s the seeking of truth in relation to yourself.”
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measurements: Image: 15.8 x 23.9 cm (6 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.); Paper: 20.3 x 25.3 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.)
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inscription: Written in red pencil on recto: "23-1/2"
Written in red pencil on recto: "29-1/2/Photo 3.3 p.98"
Written in blue pencil on recto: "67"
Written in blue ink on verso: "Floods-Natural Disasters (underlined)/Wilkes Barre/NATURE"
Written in pencil on verso: "LFDIS-04"
Written in pencil on verso: "6993"
Imprinted in black type on white adhesive label verso: "AA0061"
Stamped in red ink on verso: "Photograph By/Leonard Freed/©MAGNUM PHOTOS, INC./15 West 46th Street, N.Y.C. 10036"
Stamped in red ink on verso: "72-24-1/32A (written in pencil)"
Written in red ink on verso: JE (circled) S/S (written in pencil)"
Written in pencil on verso: "61622 (circled)"
Written in pencil on verso: "32A"
Written in pencil on verso: "NAT: 82 (underlined)"
Written in pencil on verso: "Leonard Freed (signed)"
Written in pencil on verso: "59507"
Stamped in black ink on verso: "© Leonard Freed-Magnum"
Written in pencil on verso: "1972 WILKES BARRE-PA-USA (FLOOD)/72-24-1-32A"
Written in pencil on verso: "UNIQUE/VINTAGE PRINT (stamped in black ink)"
Written in pencil on verso: "60508"
Stamped in black ink on verso: "MAGNUM/PHOTO LIBRARY PRINT/NEW YORK/40268 (written in pencil, crossed out)/37347 (written in pencil crossed out)/LOG REF. 47236/27035 (written in pencil crossed out) 32931 (written in pencil crossed out)/TO BE RETURNED 44405 (written in pencil)"
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