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"tombstone": "Sociology student with his 3 month old daughter on the balcony of his apartment, Harlem, New York City, USA, 1963. Leonard Freed (American, 1929\u20132006). Vintage gelatin silver print; image: 16.5 x 24.7 cm (6 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.); paper: 20 x 25.2 cm (7 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos, 2015.393. \u00a9 Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos",
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"inscription": "Written in blue ink in bottom margin on recto: \"2/22/68\"\r\nWritten in pencil on verso: \"LFBWA-08.2\"\r\nWritten red marker on verso: \"11 x 14\"\r\nWritten in black ink on verso: \"NYC/HARLEM\"\r\nImprinted in black type on white adhesive label on verso: \"N.Y.C. HARLEM #2/LEONARD FREED\"\r\nWritten in pencil on verso: \"1963 VINTAGE PRINT/1963 NEW YORK CITY, USA\"\r\nWritten in pencil on verso: \"Book: Black in White/America p 120-121\"\r\nWritten in pencil on verso: \"174 (upside down)\"\r\nStamped in blue ink on verso: \"\u00a9LEONARD FREED\"\r\nWritten in pencil on verso: \"058-26=old # (crossed out)\"\r\nWritten in black marker on verso: \"014-58-26 (crossed out)\"\r\nStamped in blue ink on verso: \"This photograph may only be reproduced/for review purposes in connection with/the photographic exhibit \"THE CONCERNED/PHOTOGRAPH\" Copyright \u00a9 1967\"\r\nStamped in black ink on verso: \"VINTAGE PRINT\"\r\nWritten in pencil on verso: \"63-3-16-25\"\r\nWritten in pencil on verso: \"Leonard Freed (signed)\"\r\nStamped in black ink on verso: \"\u00a9 Leonard Freed-Magnum\"\r\nWritten in pencil on verso: \"UNIQUE/VINTAGE PRINT (stamped in black ink)\"\r\nStamped in black ink on verso: \"MAGNUM/PHOTO LIBRARY PRINT/NEW YORK./LOG REF: 28503/TO BE RETURNED.\"\r\n",
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"title": "Black in America: Louis Draper and Leonard Freed",
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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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