Leonard Freed Photography
American, 1929-2006
Leonard Freed was born on October 23, 1929, in Brooklyn. Although Freed's photographic career is defined by documentary photo essays, such as Black in White America, Freed traveled extensively and captured people, places and things that interested him in locations around the globe. A Magnum photographer, Freed traveled widely, photographing African Americans in America from 1964–65, events in Israel from 1967–68 and in 1973 and the New York City police department from 1972–79, to name a few celebrated assignments. Freed’s coverage of the American civil rights movement made him famous, although he continued to produce photo essays on New York, Italians and many other subjects. Leonard Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 until his death on November 29, 2006, Philipstown.
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Artist: Leonard Freed
Kate #8, Vintage Black and White Photograph of Nude
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate #8, 2002 by Leonard Freed is an 8" x 10" signed black and white photograph, stamped "vintage" by the Freed estate on verso (back of photograph). Model and yogini Kate remains co...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Fire Hydrant, Harlem, New York, Black and White Photo African American Children
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Fire Hydrant, Harlem, 1963 by Leonard Freed is a 24" x 20" gelatin silver photograph signed by the photographer on verso (back). Provenance: Freed archive. LITERATURE: W. A. Ewing, N...
Category
1960s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film
Kate #10, Vintage Black and White Photograph of Nude Yogini
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate #10, 2002 by Leonard Freed is an 8" x 10" hand printed. Signed by the photographer black and white photograph, stamped "vintage" by the Freed estate. Model and yogini Kate remai...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Willy Nelson, Texas, Country Music Singer Portrait Photography 1990s
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Willy Nelson, 1993 by American photographer Leonard Freed is a series of (3) photographs, gelatin silver press RC prints, which are each signed verso (bac...
Category
1960s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Arno River, Florence, Italy, Street Photography of Soldiers
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
This is a black and white photograph of three soldiers seated on a bridge, above the Arno River, Florence, Italy 1958 by Leonard Freed. It is a 12" x 16" ge...
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1950s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Kate #15, Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph of Female Nude at Golden Gate Bridge
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate #15, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed is an 8" x 10" (small format) black and white photograph, stamped "vintage" on verso (back of photo) by the Freed estate. Shot I...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Kate #12, Vintage Photograph of Young Woman Yogini by Leonard Freed
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Model, photographer, and yogini Kate remains complicit in striking dramatic poses for the photographer. The yoga pose is known as sun salutation. Kate engages in a seemingly cosmic dance in open terrain against mountains and beneath a wide open sky with clouds. The Kate series is both whimsical and aesthetic -- a celebration of femininity, beauty, and freedom. Kate #12, 2002 by Leonard Freed...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Paris Longchamp, Vintage Black and White Photograph of Parisian Elite 1980s
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Paris Longchamp, 1989 by Leonard Freed is stamped and signed verso (back of photo), a gelatin silver vintage print, 16" x 12". The documentary photograph captures chic beautiful peop...
Category
1980s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Kate #3, Black and White Photograph of Female Nude 14" x 11"
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate #3, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed is in the photographer's series "Kate." This is an 11" x 14" gelatin silver photograph signed verso (back of photo) by the Freed ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Kate #11, Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph of Nude in Yoga Pose
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate #11, 2002 by Leonard Freed is a signed verso (back of photo) 8" x 10" black and white photograph, hand printed, signed by the photographer and stamped "vintage" by the Freed est...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
St. Peter's Square, Rome, Italy, Edition of Snow at the Vatican 1950s
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
St. Peter's Square, Rome, Italy, 1958 by Leonard Freed is a black and white documentary photograph of two figures (priests) on a snowy afternoon dressed in black in contrast to the f...
Category
1950s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Photographic Film, Digital, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Kate Resting, Contemporary Portrait Photography of Female Nude
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
This is a black and white contemporary portrait photograph of a female nude by Leonard Freed, Kate Resting, is in the photographer's series "Kate". A 20" x 16" gelatin silver photogr...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Kate #5, Vintage Black and White Photograph of Nude in the Forest
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate #5, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed is an 8” x 10” signed black and white photograph stamped "vintage" by the Freed estate on verso (back of photo). Model, photograp...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
City Prison, New Orleans, Vintage Black and White Photograph 1960s Civil Rights
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
City Prison, 1965 by American photographer Leonard Freed is a vintage gelatin silver, signed verso (back of photo) by the photographer. It is an iconic image from the photographer's ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Businessmen in London, Street Photography England 1970s, Vintage Print
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Businessmen in London, 1973 by Leonard Freed is signed verso (on back) by the photographer. This is a 20" x 24" vintage gelatin silver print, also stamped verso, focuses on British men...
Category
1970s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Kate, Contemporary Black and White Portrait Photography of Female Nude
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate, from the Kate series, Garrison, New York, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed is an 11” x 14” gelatin silver photograph signed verso (on back of photo) by the estate.
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Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Deauville, France, Black and White Photography of the Parisian Riviera 1960s
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Deauville, France, 1964 by American photographer Leonard Freed is a black and white contemporary photograph that captures chic style and loving embrace of a couple at the seaside tow...
Category
1960s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Trinity Church Wall Street, A Black and White Photograph of New York City 1990s
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Trinity Church, Wall Street, 1995 by Leonard Freed is a 20" x 16" black and white, gelatin silver print, from the photographer's estate. The contemporary landscape photograph capture...
Category
1990s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper
New York, New York, Vintage Black and White Photograph of Men in Suits 1980s
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
New York, New York, 1981 by American photographer Leonard Freed. This is a 16" x 12" signed verso (on back), gelatin silver, also stamped verso, vintage print. The photograph captures men in suits...
Category
1980s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Photographic Film, Silver Gelatin
Office party, New York City, A Signed Gelatin Silver Photograph from the 1960s
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Office Party, New York City, 1966 by Leonard Freed is a gelatin silver later print, 16 x 20, signed verso (on back) by the photographer. Freed enjoyed sto...
Category
1960s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Bride, Naples, Italy, Black and White Street Photography 1950s
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Bride, Naples, Italy, 1958 by Leonard Freed is a black and white contemporary photograph, cinematic in nature. This is a gelatin silver, signed by the photographer, lifetime print, 24" x 20" from the Freed archive.
LITERATURE: W. A. Ewing, N. Herschdorfer, and W. van Sinderen, Worldview, Leonard Freed, Steidl, 2007, p. 73 and back cover.
Leonard Freed discovered Little Italy in New York...
Category
1950s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Birmingham Children, Vintage Black and White Civil Rights Photography 1960s
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Birmingham Children, 1963 by American photographer Leonard Freed is a 16" x 12" vintage gelatin silver photograph, signed verso (on back) by the photographer. A photo that depicts th...
Category
1960s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Diver, Dortmund, Germany, Black and White Documentary Photography 1960s
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
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 i...
Category
1960s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Picnic with Birds, England, UK, Small Works Photographs by Leonard Freed
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
The photograph shot in England, Picnic with Birds, 2001 by Leonard Freed is a 5" x 7" gelatin silver photograph, stamped “vintage” by the Freed estate on ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Kate #13, Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph of Female Figure, Dance and Yoga
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate #13, is from the Kate series, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed is a signed, 8" x 10" (small format) black and white photograph (gelatin silver), stamped "vintage" on ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
Kate #16, Vintage Gelatin Silver Print of Female Nude
By Leonard Freed
Located in New york, NY
Kate #16, 2002 is a vintage 8" x 10" black and white photograph from the series "Kate." Model Kate remains complicit in striking and defining dramatic poses for Freed. The photograph...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
MLK Baltimore USA
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he discovered photography. In 1954 he moved to Little Italy on the lower east side of Manhattan, where his love affair with Italian culture began.
The photographs expose Freed’s love of the Italian people. In photo after photo, the daily life, rituals and traditions of Italians are expertly frozen in time by the eye of such an accomplished photographer. The Italians finds scenes of weddings, birthdays and everyday life exposing their inner lives. His photographs illuminate an entire set of habits intertwined with tradition that are symbols of a broader culture and an entire country.
Freed’s career began shortly after World War II with subjects as diverse as his travels. Freed first came to fame in the United States documenting...
Category
Late 20th Century Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
We Must have Justice! NYC
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Signed, printed later,before 2007
Category
1960s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Freedom Now, Washington, DC, 8/28/63
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Signed, printed later but before 2007.
Category
1960s Contemporary Leonard Freed Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Wall Street, NYC
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
Category
1950s Leonard Freed Photography
NYC (Police Work)
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
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1970s Leonard Freed Photography
Harlem NYC Muscle Boy
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
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1960s Leonard Freed Photography
Germany Near Budensee
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
Category
1960s Leonard Freed Photography
NYC Police Work
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
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1770s Leonard Freed Photography
NYC
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
Category
1970s Leonard Freed Photography
Israel Refugees
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
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1960s Leonard Freed Photography
NYC David Rockefeller
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
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1970s Leonard Freed Photography
France
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
Category
1980s Leonard Freed Photography
Israel
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Born in Brooklyn, Leonard Freed first wanted to become a painter but began taking photographs while in the Netherlands in 1953. In 1954, after trips through Europe and North Africa, ...
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1970s Leonard Freed Photography
NYC
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
Category
1970s Leonard Freed Photography
Tajiki Sculptor
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
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1960s Leonard Freed Photography
Jerusalem
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
Category
1960s Leonard Freed Photography
NYC For Police Work Book
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
Category
1970s Leonard Freed Photography
NYC
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
Category
1970s Leonard Freed Photography
Wailing Wall Jerusalem
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
Category
1960s Leonard Freed Photography
West Germany
By Leonard Freed
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leonard Freed is considered one of the most prolific and timely photojournalists of his generation. Born in Brooklyn, he traveled to Europe for the first time in 1952, where he disc...
Category
1970s Leonard Freed Photography
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