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Leonard Freed
Fire Hydrant, Harlem, New York, 1963 Limited Edition Photograph, Signed, Ed 4/10

1963

$2,500
£1,884
€2,201.50
CA$3,547.69
A$3,558.47
CHF 2,064.12
MX$43,437.98
NOK 23,908.29
SEK 24,468.53
DKK 16,456.17

About the Item

Fire Hydrant, Harlem, 1963 by Leonard Freed is a 19" x 13" limited edition photograph. The portrait is signed verso (back of photo) by the estate by Brigitte Freed wife of the photographer, additionally Leonard's Freed's Magnum stamp on photo back. Available: Ed 4/10 In the image of Fire Hydrant, two children enjoy a blissful moment of a Harlem summer in 1963. A city hydrant spraying water offers the children relief from the sun’s blistering heat. The children smile broadly, as water soaks their body and water collects along the street. The portrait captures a moment of celebration, joy, and simplicity of childhood experienced on the steamy asphalt streets of Harlem on a hot summer day in New York City. Leonard Freed's photographic career is punctuated by legendary documentary photo essays such as Black in White America with Fire Hydrant, Harlem remaining one of the photographer's most iconic images from the series. LITERATURE: W. A. Ewing, N. Herschdorfer, and W. van Sinderen, Worldview, Leonard Freed, Steidl, 2007, p. 127. 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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