A known drug dealer shows the knife wounds he had received in pursuit of his street trading. In this district the streets are so dangerous that the police officer carries two guns and a switch-blade knife. The small opera glasses are used to watch drug dealers from a distance, New York City, 1978

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series Title

Police Work

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 20 × 29.9 cm (7 7/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

sheet: 28 × 35.3 cm (11 × 13 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Brigitte Freed

Accession Number

2017.166.22

Artists / Makers

Leonard Freed (artist) American, 1929 - 2006

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: 78--5-16/29A; center right underlined: 5; lower left: 1978- NEW YORK (USA) / VINTAGE PRINT / Book: "Policework" p.1 UNIQUE; center printed in black ink on applied paper: 1. The drug pusher showed his knife wounds from past battles. "I'm / still alive," he said. "You can never have enough fire power," the / officer said.; lower left stamped in black ink inverted: 1 100; lower center: VINTAGE PRINT; by unknown hand, lower right in black ink: II 27/8^ / S. 19; bottom right: 78-9-16/29A; bottom right stamped in red ink: © Leonard Freed-Magnum

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Freed, Brigitte

Bibliography

1980: Freed, Leonard. Police Work. New York, 1980: p. 1.