Homicide detectives produce fingerprints from a corpse in the city morgue, New York City

1975

Leonard Freed

Artist, American, 1929 - 2006

Magnum Photos

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Brigitte Freed

  • Dimensions

    image: 20 × 30.1 cm (7 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 27.9 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.166.16

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Brigitte Freed, Garrison, NY; gift to NGA, 2017.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1980

  • Freed, Leonard. Police Work. New York, 1980: p. 62-63.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Leonard Freed; by artist, center right in graphite circled: 5; lower left: 1975 NEW YORK City, USA / VINTAGE ARCHIVAL PRINT / UNIQUE ORIGINAL PRINT / USED FOR BOOK: "POLICE WORK" p. 62-63 / publ. 1980 / (in the City MORGUE); bottom center: UNIQUE; on recto, by unknown hand, top right in red pencil: 62; center right in orange pencil: 10 1/4"; cropping notes along right edge; lower left embossed: © Leonard Freed; on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite: #110-111; lower right stamped in black ink: © Leonard Freed-Magnum; bottom center: VINTAGE PRINT; by unknown hand, bottom right in black ink: 75-19-17/35

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