Homicide in a welfare office. On Friday the woman refused to date her former boyfriend. On the weekend he bought a kitchen knife. Monday morning he arrived in the office and again she refused him. He suddenly plunged the knife into her, New York City, 1972

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series Title

Police Work

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19.9 × 30.2 cm (7 13/16 × 11 7/8 in.)

sheet: 27.6 × 35.5 cm (10 7/8 × 14 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Brigitte Freed

Accession Number

2017.166.15

Artists / Makers

Leonard Freed (artist) American, 1929 - 2006

Brigitte Freed (printer)

Magnum Photos (publisher)

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Inscription

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Leonard Freed; by artist, center in graphite inverted: 72-19-13/24; center right in graphite circled: 5; lower left in graphite: 1972- NEW YORK City (USA) / VINTAGE PRINT / Book: "Police Work" p.55; bottom center: -UNIQUE THIS [illegible]-; on recto, lower left embossed: © Leonard Freed; on verso, upper center printed in black ink on applied paper: 55. Homicide in a welfare office. On Friday the woman refused to date / her former boyfriend. On the weekend he bought a kitchen knife. / Monday morning he arrived in the office and again she refused him. / He suddenly plunged the knife into her.; center left stamped in black ink inverted: 1 104; lower center: PRINTED BY / BRIGITTE FREED / BETWEEN 1957 / AND 1975; lower right stamped in red ink: © Leonard Freed-Magnum; bottom center stamped in black ink: VINTAGE PRINT; by unknown hand, bottom right in black ink: 72-19-13/34

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Freed, Brigitte

Bibliography

1980: Freed, Leonard. Police Work. New York, 1980: p. 55-56.