Leonard Freed

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

Life

Leonard Freed comes from a family of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. At first he wanted to be a painter, but at the age of 24 he started taking photographs while traveling in the Netherlands. This appealed to him so well that he wanted to make it his profession. After returning to the USA in 1954, he studied “design laboratory photography” with Alexey Brodovitch , the art director of Harper's Bazaar . On his first reportage trip to Rome in 1956 , he met his wife Brigitte Klück and married her in 1958. Freed began working as a freelance photographer in 1961.

He met Edward Steichen at an early age , who at the time was the director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art . Steichen wanted to buy three photographs from him 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 as the other two were now doing commercial photography and had become uninteresting. The sale to the MoMa did not materialize because Freed could not afford the cost of a professional enlargement at that time.

In 1968 he published "Black in White America," a book about African-Americans in Harlem, as a contribution to the US civil rights movement (Civil rights movement) found recognition. He is also known for his photo reports on the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973 and for his realistic shots of everyday life in a New York police station in the late 1970s. In 1980 he published his book "Police Work".

After his employment at Magnum Photos in 1972, he made his classic photo essays for international magazines such as Life , Look , Paris Match , Die Zeit , Der Spiegel , stern , The Sunday Times Magazine of London, Liberation and Fortune .

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

Quote

“ During 38 years Leonard Freed was always polite, efficient, cooperative and smiling. He was 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. "

- Jimmy Fox, Magnum, Paris

Exhibitions

  • Museum Folkwang, Essen 2013
  • The Photographer's Gallery, London 1973
  • Folkwang Museum, Essen 1980
  • FNAC Gallery, Paris 1983
  • Museu d'indumentària, 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 2001
  • Galerie argus fotokunst, Berlin 2004, Made in Germany Vintage photographs by Leonard Freed
  • Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne: Leonard Freed: Worldview (overall view), May 31 to September 2, 2007
  • c | o berlin, Berlin July 19 to October 5, 2008, Leonard Freed. Worldview
  • Galerie argus fotokunst, Berlin 2008, Weltsicht - Weitsicht 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. How the sculptor Tajiri tames girls and metal , Frankfurt am Main, 1970. Text: Herbert Feuerstein .
  • Police Work , New York 1980
  • La dance des fidèles , Paris 1984
  • New York Police , Paris 1990
  • Photographies 1954-1990 , Paris 1991
  • Amsterdam - The Sixties , Amsterdam 1997
  • This Is the Day: The March on Washington , Los Angeles 2013

Web links

Obituaries

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition text for the Freed exhibition at C | O Berlin 2008
  2. ↑ "Leonard Freed" , The Guardian December 6, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Freed, Leonard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City, USA
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 2006
Place of death Garrison (New York)