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        "tombstone": "Staten Island, NY/Mother with Children, 1954. Leonard Freed (American, 1929\u20132006). Two vintage gelatin silver prints mounted back to back; overall: 27 x 22.4 cm (10 5/8 x 8 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, 2016.293. \u00a9 Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos",
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        "title": "Staten Island, NY/Mother with Children",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Leonard Freed /Magnum Photos",
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                "inscription": "STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK: Written in black ink on recto of image a: \u201cLeonard Freed (signed)\u201d\nWritten in black ink on recto of image a: \u201c1954-1955 STATEN ISLAND, NY-USA/VINTAGE PRINT BY: LEONARD FREED-MAGNUM\u201d\nWritten in black ink on recto of image a: \u201cBOOK: BLACK IN WHITE AMERICA\u201d\nStamped in black ink on recto of image a: \u201c\u00a9 Leonard Freed-Magnum\u201d\nStamped in black ink on recto of image a: \u201cVINTAGE PRINT\u201d",
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                "inscription": "MOTHER WITH CHILDREN: Written in black ink on recto of image b: \u201cLeonard Freed (signed)\u201d\nStamped in black ink on recto of image b: \u201c\u00a9 Leonard Freed-Magnum\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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        "creditline": "Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg",
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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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