id: 171840 accession number: 2014.584 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.584 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:42.204000 Youngsters Fighting in the Street are Separated by Police Officers, 1976. Leonard Freed (American, 1929–2006). Gelatin silver print; image: 16.3 x 24.2 cm (6 7/16 x 9 1/2 in.); paper: 20.3 x 25.2 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2014.584 © Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos title: Youngsters Fighting in the Street are Separated by Police Officers title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1976 creation date earliest: 1971 creation date latest: 1981 current location: creditline: Gift of George Stephanopoulos 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: 16.3 x 24.2 cm (6 7/16 x 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.3 x 25.2 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in red pencil on verso: "Youth-Delinquent" Written in pencil on verso: "NYC" Written in blue ink on verso: "Crime: Youth" Written in blue pencil on verso: "SP" Written in black ink on verso: "78-9-42-34" Written in black ink on verso: "1978 New York City/9th Police Precinct/Police stop 2 boys From/fighting in street" Written in pencil on verso: "75905 [crossed out]" Written in pencil on verso: "62765 [crossed out]" Written in blue ink on verso: "77526" Written in pencil on verso: "Leonard Freed (signed)" Written in red ink on white adhesive label on verso: "15" Written in black ink on white adhesive label on verso: "43" Written in pencil on verso: "LF-PW-101.02" Written in pencil on verso: "78-9-42-34" Written in pencil on verso: "Book: Police Work/1978 New York City, USA" Written in pencil on verso: "65898" Written in blue ink on verso: "68992 [crossed out in pencil]" Written in pencil on verso: "76741" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES