Leonard Freed
dal 19/12/2011 al 17/3/2012
Segnalato da
19/12/2011
Leonard Freed
Museum of the City, New York
Police Work: Photographs
Police Work: Photographs by Leonard Freed, 1972-1979 features a selection of vintage prints by the Brooklyn-born photographer who documented 'life on the beat' with NYPD officers during the tumultuous 1970s. During a time when New York City faced near bankruptcy and was internationally notorious for its high crime rates and social disorder, Freed's photographs reveal the complexity, the harshness, and the camaraderie of the city's public safety servants and the people they protected. Highlighting a recent gift to the Museum of the City of New York by his widow Bridgette Freed, the exhibition is a gritty, realistic portrait of ordinary people doing a 'sometimes boring, sometimes corrupting, sometimes dangerous and ugly and unhealthy job.' Image: 'New York City, From Inside a Police Auto. Police Check Autos for Wanted Man,' 1978. Gift of Brigitte and Elke Susanna Freed in memory of Leonard Freed (c) Leonard Freed / Magnum Photos.