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        "tombstone": "Harlem, New York, 1963. Leonard Freed (American, 1929\u20132006). Vintage gelatin silver print; image: 24.5 x 16.6 cm (9 5/8 x 6 9/16 in.); paper: 25.4 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2016.275. \u00a9 Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos",
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                "inscription": "Stamped in purple ink on verso: \u201cSEP 29 PM 2:37\u201d\nStamped in red ink on verso: \u201cOCT 4 1967\u201d\nWritten in blue ink on verso: \u201c\u00a9 LEONARD FREED/Harlem 1967 [67 crossed out and covered by 64]\u201d\nCommercially imprinted throughout verso of paper: \u201cA KODAK PAPER\u201d",
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                    "title": "Black in America: Louis Draper and Leonard Freed",
                    "description": "<i>Black in America: Louis Draper and Leonard Freed</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 26-July 30, 2017).",
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                "citation": "Tannenbaum, Barbara. \u201cBlack in America: Two photographers\u2014one black, one white\u2014look at life during the civil rights era.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 57, no. 2 (March/April 2017): 28-29.",
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                "description": "Leonard Freed (American, 1929\u20132006)",
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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<em> Black in White America, </em>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 <em>Black in White America</em> 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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