At night in a police station, the minors are set out of the cells. Mostly small-town teenage runaways, still wearing their mothers' lipstick, are picked up at night either by the police or pimps. "These girls in the picture are lucky; the pimps haven't gotten to them yet," said the fatherly officer. "They sleep the night here and in the morning we turn them over to the social workers," New York City, 1972

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series Title

Police Work

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 22 × 32.9 cm (8 11/16 × 12 15/16 in.)

sheet: 27.9 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Brigitte Freed

Accession Number

2017.166.23

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 right in graphite circled: 5; lower left partially erased: 14/7; lower left: 1972- NEW YORK City, USA / VINTAGE ARCHIVAL PRINT / BOOK: "Police work" (young prostitutes) / p.16; bottom center: UNIQUE; bottom center: 72-19-7-15; lower right stamped in black ink: © Leonard Freed-Magnum; bottom center: VINTAGE PRINT; bottom right: © 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. 16.