A 14th Street drug pusher shows one of his many knife wounds, shortly after this photo was taken he was stabbed again, New York City

1978

Leonard Freed

Associated Names
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: 30.1 × 20.3 cm (11 7/8 × 8 in.)
    sheet: 35.3 × 28 cm (13 7/8 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.166.32

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1980

  • Freed, Leonard. Police Work. New York, 1980: p. 39.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Leonard Freed; by artist, center in graphite perpendicular: 78-9-15/35; lower left: 1978-NEW YORK City (USA) / VINTAGE PRINT; lower right circled: 5; bottom left: 78-9-15-34A / BOOK: "POLICE WORK" p.39; bottom center: UNIQUE; bottom right in black ink: 79-9-15/35; center right printed in black ink on applied paper perpendicular: 39. The man showed his wounds from the drug wars. A few weeks / later he was knifed again.; lower center stamped in black ink perpendicular: 0 100; bottom center: VINTAGE PRINT; bottom right stamped in red ink: © Leonard Freed-Magnum

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