An officer once said to me that he always worried about his family at home. Who, he wondered, protected them while he worked nights? It made him diligent, New York City, 1978

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series Title

Police Work

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 30.4 × 20.6 cm (11 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

sheet: 35.3 × 28 cm (13 7/8 × 11 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Brigitte Freed

Accession Number

2017.166.34

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 perpendicular: 78-9-49/15; lower left: 1978-NEW YORK, USA / ARCHIVAL PRINT / BOOK "Police work" p. 29; lower right circled: 5; bottom center: UNIQUE; bottom right in black ink: 78-9-49/15; center left printed in black ink on applied paper perpendicular: 29. An officer once said to me that he was always worried about his family / at home. Who, he wondered, protected them while he worked / nights? It made him diligent.; lower center stamped in black ink perpendicular: 1 100; lower right stamped in red ink: © Leonard Freed-Magnum; bottom center stamped in black ink: VINTAGE PRINT

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Freed, Brigitte

Bibliography

1980: Freed, Leonard. Police Work. New York, 1980: p. 29.