The man lay unconscious. Someone had placed a note on his chest, suggesting the police be called, New York City, 1979

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series Title

Police Work

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 30.3 × 20.3 cm (11 15/16 × 8 in.)

sheet: 35.3 × 27.9 cm (13 7/8 × 11 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Brigitte Freed

Accession Number

2017.166.31

Artists / Makers

Leonard Freed (artist) American, 1929 - 2006

Magnum Photos (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso, signed by artist, lower left in graphite perpendicular: Leonard Freed; by artist, upper left in graphite perpendicular: 1979- NEW YORK City, USA / VINTAGE ARCHIVAL PRINT / UNIQUE ORIGINAL PRINTED USED / FOR BOOK: "POLICEWORK": page 40; lower right circled: 5; lower right: #77; bottom right in black ink: 79-7-29/5; on recto, by unknown hand, upper left in red pencil perpendicular: 40; bottom left embossed: © Leonard Freed; on verso, upper left stamped in black ink perpendicular: VINTAGE PRINT; lower left perpendicular: © Leonard Freed-Magnum; lower 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. 40.