Lot 279
  • 279

Leonard Freed

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Leonard Freed
  • 'NEW YORK CITY, USA' (SUSPECT IN THE BACK OF A POLICE CAR)
  • Gelatin silver print
signed, titled, dated, and annotated in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1978, printed in 1992

Provenance

Magnum Photos, New York, 1995

Literature

New York Police: Photographs of Leonard Freed (Centre National de la Photographie, 1997), cover

Condition

This print, on double-weight paper with a surface sheen, is in generally excellent condition. In raking light, there is a soft, one-inch indentation not breaking the emulsion visible in the lower left quadrant.
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