id:			321988
accession number:	2018.330
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.330
updated:		2025-02-09 07:45:28.942000

Greek Orthodox Priest in the Old City of Jerusalem, 1967. Leonard Freed (American, 1929–2006). Gelatin silver print; image: 26 x 37.6 cm (10 1/4 x 14 13/16 in.); paper: 26 x 37.6 cm (10 1/4 x 14 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of George Stephanopoulos 2018.330

title:				Greek Orthodox Priest in the Old City of Jerusalem
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creation date:			1967
creation date earliest:		1967
creation date latest:		1967
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creditline:			Gift of George Stephanopoulos
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culture:	America
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Plaque
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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<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 “photography is about who you are. It’s the seeking of truth in relation to yourself.”
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measurements: Image: 26 x 37.6 cm (10 1/4 x 14 13/16 in.); Paper: 26 x 37.6 cm (10 1/4 x 14 13/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in graphite on verso: "LFISX-04/ 7500-"
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	inscription:	Written in graphite on verso: "(horizontal line near top border extending the width of the paper)"
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	inscription:	Written in black marker on verso: "MO.9.9.2"
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	inscription:	Commercially imprinted in grey throughout verso: "Agfa"
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	inscription:	Imprinted in black ink on yellowed paper adhesive, on verso of photograph: "MAGNUM (centered in grey ink box, 5.6 x 5.7 mm)/ 72 West 45 Street, New York, New York 10036 (printed vertically, reading from bottom to top of adhesive)"; imprinted in grey ink on same adhesive: "© Leonard Freed-Magnum"; written in blue ink on same adhesive: "1967(underlined)"; typed in grey-black ink on same adhesive: "Israel/ Greek Orthodox priest in the/ Old City of Jerusalem./ X 74-2"; written in black ink on same adhesive: "FRL67"
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	inscription:	Imprinted in faded blue ink on verso: "M(?)IRAGE ARCHIVE MAGNUM PHOTOS/ 5, PASSAGE PIVER 75011 PARIS/ EPREUVE A RENDRE/ MAGNUM PARIS LIBRARY/ PRINT TO BE RETURNED"
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	inscription:	Written in graphite on verso: "Leonard Freed"
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	inscription:	Imprinted in blue ink on verso: "VINTAGE PRINT"
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	inscription:	Written in graphite on verso: "(horizontal line near bottom border extending the width of the paper)"
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