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

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

    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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