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Leonard Freed
Germany, Dortmund, Black and White Photography 1960s, Diver by Leonard Freed

1965

$2,600
£1,974.91
€2,275.77
CA$3,661.44
A$4,059.25
CHF 2,133.30
MX$49,678.59
NOK 26,642.69
SEK 25,006.83
DKK 16,987.20

About the Item

Diver, Dortmund, Germany, 1965 by Leonard Freed is a 16” x 20” gelatin silver print, signed and stamped (on back of photo) by the widow Brigitte Freed. This contemporary photograph illustrates Leonard Freed's mastery as a photographer, his ability to translate the 'decisive moment', with diver as subject captured in mid-air. A mysterious and transcendent image perhaps that reveals, in natural light, the agility of a diver in mid-flight. Provenance: Freed Estate *** Artist’s Bio: Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian, a social documentary photographer. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police department (1972-79). Freed's coverage of the American civil rights movement is well-known as are his photo essays on New York, Italy, Germany, The Kate Series, among others.

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