id: 171690 accession number: 2014.451 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.451 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:41.368000 Queen Juliana Receives Visitors and Flowers on her Birthday, Soestdijk, Holland, 1959. Leonard Freed (American, 1929–2006). Gelatin silver print; image: 23.7 x 15.5 cm (9 5/16 x 6 1/8 in.); paper: 23.7 x 15.5 cm (9 5/16 x 6 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Jon and Nicky Ungar 2014.451 © Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos title: Queen Juliana Receives Visitors and Flowers on her Birthday, Soestdijk, Holland title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1959 creation date earliest: 1959 creation date latest: 1959 current location: creditline: Gift of Jon and Nicky Ungar copyright: © Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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.” --- measurements: Image: 23.7 x 15.5 cm (9 5/16 x 6 1/8 in.); Paper: 23.7 x 15.5 cm (9 5/16 x 6 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "LFHOL-035" Written in pencil on verso: "5000" Imprinted in black type on white adhesive label on verso: "NETHERLANDS/H-16 (written in blue ink)" Written in pencil on verso: "Leonard Freed (signed)" Stamped in black ink on verso: "Unique (written in pencil)/VINTAGE PRINT 1959 (written in pencil)" Stamped in black ink on verso: "© Leonard Freed-Magnum" Written in pencil on verso: "1959 SOESTDIJK, HOLLAND" Commercially imprinted throughout paper on verso: "Agfa" Written in blue ink on verso: "Kongin Juliana/von Holland/empfangt gebertstagsgluck/wunsche/schloys soestdijk" Imprinted in black type on paper label adhered to verso: "MAGNUM/72 West 45 Street, New York, New York 10036/© Leonard Freed-Magnum (stamped in purple ink) Holland 1959 (written in pencil and underlined)/May 1st,/Her Majesty Queen Juliana's/birthday. She is receiving/well wishers and thousands of/flower buques are laid on the/stairs of her residence,/castle Soestdijk./H 105-15 (crossed out in pencil) = OCDH (written in pencil)" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES