Leonard Freed

Leonard Freed ( born October 23, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA, † November 30, 2006 in Garrison, NY) was a photographer since 1972 and a full member of Magnum Photos.

Life

Leonard Freed comes from a family of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. First, he wanted to be a painter, but at age 24 he started on a trip to the Netherlands to take photographs. This told him so well that he wanted to make it his profession. After his return to the United States in 1954, he studied "design laboratory photography " Alexey Brodovitch at, the art director of Harper 's Bazaar. On his first press trip in 1956 in Rome, he met his wife Brigitte Klück and married her in 1958. Freed began in 1961 to work as a freelance photographer.

Early on, he met Edward Steichen, who was at that time the Director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art. Steichen wanted to buy him three photographs for his museum and told him that he was one of the three best young photographers he had seen. He advised him to remain an amateur, since the other two now made ​​commercial photography and have become uninteresting. The sale to the MoMa then did not materialize because Freed at that time the cost of a professional magnification could not afford.

In 1968 he published " Black in White America ," a book about African- Americans in Harlem, who had to contribute to the American Civil Rights Movement (Civil rights movement ) recognition. He became known with still photo coverage of the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973 and with its realistic snapshots of the everyday life in a New York police station in the late 1970s. In 1980 he published his book, " Police Work".

He made his classic photo essays after his employment at Magnum Photos in 1972 in international magazines such as Life, Look, Paris Match, Time, Der Spiegel, star, The Sunday Times Magazine of London, Libération and Fortune.

Freed died of prostate cancer and is survived by his wife Brigitte and their daughter, Elke Susannah Freed, also in Garrison, New York.

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" During 38 years Leonard Freed what always polite, efficient, cooperative and smiling. Hey what open to other opinions and had a great interest in human behavior, without being malicious or self- appropriating. The description ' Concerned Photographer ' fitted him like a glove. "

Exhibitions

  • Museum Folkwang, Essen 2013
  • The Photographer 's Gallery, London 1973
  • Museum Folkwang, Essen 1980
  • Gallery FNAC, Paris 1983
  • Museu d' indumentaria, Barcelona 1993
  • Universidad Gallery, Salamanca 1994
  • Galerie du Chateau d' Eau, Toulouse 1987
  • Gallery 292, New York 1994
  • Lee Gallery, Massachusetts 2000
  • Garrison Art Center, New York in 2001
  • Gallery argus photo art, Berlin 2004, Made in Germany vintage photographs by Leonard Freed
  • Musée de l' Elysée, Lausanne: Leonard Freed: Worldview ( overall view ) 31 May, bis September 2, 2007
  • C | o berlin, Berlin July 19 to October 5, 2008 Leonard Freed. ideology
  • Gallery argus photo art, Berlin 2008, world view - foresight Photographs by Leonard Freed

Publications

  • Joden van Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1959
  • German Jews today, Munich 1965
  • Black in White America, New York 1968
  • Made in Germany, New York 1970
  • Strange games. As the sculptor Tajiri girls and metal tames, Frankfurt am Main, 1970 Text:. Herbert Feuerstein.
  • Police Work, New York 1980
  • La dance of Fidèles, Paris 1984
  • New York Police, Paris 1990
  • Photographies 1954-1990, Paris 1991
  • Amsterdam - The Sixties, Amsterdam 1997
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