By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Woman on Bus, from the March on Washington, 1963 by Leonard Freed, is a 11" x 14" gelatin silver print, signed and stamped on verso (back of photo) by the Freed estate by Brigitte Freed (wife of the photographer).
The photo is from Leonard Freed's This Is the Day: The March on Washington and is on p. 81 of the book (Getty Museum, 2013).
American photographer Leonard Freed enjoyed documentary storytelling and was a "concerned photographer" whose work demonstrated humanitarian concerns.
Provenance: Freed estate
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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...
Category
1960s Contemporary Black and White Photography
MaterialsPhotographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film