id: 291575 accession number: 2016.286 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2016.286 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:52.571000 People hang out on stoop in front of apartment building, Harlem, New York City, 1963. Leonard Freed (American, 1929–2006). Vintage gelatin silver print; image: 24.7 x 16.5 cm (9 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.); paper: 25.2 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg 2016.286 © Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos title: People hang out on stoop in front of apartment building, Harlem, New York City title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1963 creation date earliest: 1963 creation date latest: 1963 current location: creditline: Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg copyright: © Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos --- culture: America technique: vintage 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: 24.7 x 16.5 cm (9 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.); Paper: 25.2 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in red ink in margin on recto: “F18 3-3” Numerous inscriptions and stamps located on verso. Some are obscured by adhesive labels. Written in pencil on verso: “LFBWA-92/7500” Written in pencil on verso: “63 [circled and scribbled out in pencil]” Written in blue marker on verso: “New York City” Imprinted in black type on white adhesive label on verso: “N.Y.C. HARLEM #2/LEONARD FREED” Imprinted in black type on white adhesive label on verso: “© Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos, Inc.” Imprinted in black type on white adhesive label on verso: “cons. #86700/KEIKO MORRIS” Written in pencil on verso: “Camera 5” Written in black conte crayon: “Fig 3-3 82% [illegible] page 59” Stamped in black ink on verso, partially obscured by white adhesive label: “MAGNUM/PHOTO LIBRARY PRINT/NEW YORK./[multiple sets of numbers scratched out, illegible]/LOG REF:/TO BE RETURNED” Written in pencil on verso: “71630” Written in pencil on verso: “28503 [crossed out in pencil]” Written in pencil on verso: “Fig 3-3” Written in pencil on verso: “Harlem” Stamped in black ink on verso: “PRINTED BY/BRIGITTE FREED/BETWEEN 1957/AND 1975” Written in pencil on verso: “75987” Written in pencil on verso: “61159” Stamped in black ink on verso: “52386” Written in pencil on verso: “Leonard Freed (signed)” Stamped in black ink on verso: “© Leonard Freed-Magnum” Stamped in blue ink on verso: “© LEONARD FREED” Written in pencil on verso: “63-5-17-34” Stamped in black ink on verso: “VINTAGE PRINT” Imprinted in black type on white adhesive label on verso: “CONS#89860” Stamped in blue ink on verso: “This photograph may only be reproduced/for review purposes in connection with/the photographic exhibit “THE CONCERNED/PHOTOGRAPHER” Copyright © 1967” Written in pencil on verso: “1963 Harlem, N.Y., USA-Book: Black in White America p94” Imprinted in black type on white adhesive label on verso: “NOTICE/Photographs must be credited to the photographer and/MAGNUM PHOTOS. Photographs may not be cropped/or altered in any way without prior written approval by/MAGNUM PHOTOS. Photographs consigned by/MAGNUM PHOTOS for your possible use may not be/scanned without the express written permission of/MAGNUM PHOTOS./VIOLATION OF THESE POLICIES WILL RESULT IN/FINES AT A MINIMUM of 100% OF THE USAGE FEE.” translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Black in America: Louis Draper and Leonard Freed opening date: 2017-02-26T05:00:00 Black in America: Louis Draper and Leonard Freed. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 26-July 30, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES