id: 171831
accession number: 2014.576
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.576
updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:42.152000
People Outside a Home Damaged by Flood, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA, 1972. Leonard Freed (American, 1929–2006). Gelatin silver print; image: 15.9 x 24 cm (6 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.); paper: 19.6 x 25.2 cm (7 11/16 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2014.576 © Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos
title: People Outside a Home Damaged by Flood, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA
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creation date: 1972
creation date earliest: 1967
creation date latest: 1977
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creditline: Gift of George Stephanopoulos
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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* 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: 15.9 x 24 cm (6 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.); Paper: 19.6 x 25.2 cm (7 11/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
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inscription: Numerous numbers written pencil on verso and crossed out: "34593/23059/21907/22359/2880"
Written in pencil on verso: "36319 NAT: 82/LFDIS-01.2/1972 WILKES-BARRE.PA.USA/66153"
Written in blue ink on verso: "Nature-Natural Disasters"
Written in red marker on verso: "Flood [crossed out in pencil]"
Written in black marker on verso: "Wilkes Barre, Pa [crossed out in pencil]"
Written in pencil on verso: "Disasters [crossed out in blue ink]"
Written in blue ink on verso: "Natural Disaster [crossed out in pencil]"
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