A demonstrator refused to stop blocking traffic. The police removed him bodily, New York City, 1979

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series Title

Police Work

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 20 × 29.8 cm (7 7/8 × 11 3/4 in.)

sheet: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Brigitte Freed

Accession Number

2017.166.24

Artists / Makers

Leonard Freed (artist) American, 1929 - 2006

Magnum Photos (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Leonard Freed; by artist, center in black ink inverted: 687; center right in graphite circled: 5; lower left: 1979 NEW YORK City, USA / VINTAGE ARCHIVAL PRINT / Book: "Police work", p. 36-37; bottom right in black ink: 79-7-5/31; bottom right stamped in black ink: 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. 36-37.