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"tombstone": "Children in Window, Harlem, NY, 1972. Leonard Freed (American, 1929\u20132006). Gelatin silver print; image: 24.5 x 19.6 cm (9 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.); paper: 23.5 x 15 cm (9 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mark Greenberg and Tami Morachnick, 2014.473. \u00a9 Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos",
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"title": "Children in Window, Harlem, NY",
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"measurements": "Image: 24.5 x 19.6 cm (9 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 23.5 x 15 cm (9 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.)",
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"inscription": "On the verso, written in pencil: LFB WA-233 7500\" / \"P/A/INO.p.87\"(?)./Signed by artist:\" Leonard Freed\"(written twice in pencil).\r\nPrinted in pencil:\" UNIQUE\"/ \" 1972 HARLEM NEW YORK,USA\"/ \" 1972/VINTAGE PRINT\" / \" 35 13 \u00bd 011 183 800 \"/ \"8\" .\r\nWritten in black marker : \" Harlem\"\r\nDrawn in pencil an arrow pointing up.\r\nOn verso, a blue ink stamp: \" TIRAGE ARCHIVE MAGNUM PHOTOS/5,PASSAGE PIVER 75011 PARIS/EF(??MISSING)UVE A RENDRE/MAGNUM PARIS LIBRARY/PRINT TO BE RETURNED\"/\r\n\"\u00a9 Leonard Freed-Magnum\".\r\nTwo black ink stamps : \" \u00a9 leaonard Freed -Magnum\".\r\n",
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"title": "Stories from Storage",
"description": "Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).",
"opening_date": "2021-02-06T05:00:00"
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"did_you_know": "Leonard Freed joined Magnum Photos, an influential artist-run cooperative of photojournalists, in the same year that he captured this image.",
"description": "Harlem was a frequent subject for the documentary photographer Leonard Freed, who was interested in the experiences of Black Americans and especially the injustices highlighted by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. He alluded to issues such as poverty and segregation in this photo by showing a group of children who look directly at the viewer, but who do so from a long and insurmountable distance through shards of shattered glass that suggest the building\u2019s neglect.",
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"creditline": "Gift of Mark Greenberg and Tami Morachnick",
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"biography": "Born in Brooklyn to Jewish, working-class parents of Eastern European descent, Leonard Freed (1929\u20132006) 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\u2019s 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 \u201cphotography is about who you are. It\u2019s the seeking of truth in relation to yourself.\u201d",
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"updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:02:32.326000"
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