A known drug dealer shows the knife wounds he had received in pursuit of his street trading. In this district the streets are so dangerous that the police officer carries two guns and a switch-blade knife. The small opera glasses are used to watch drug dealers from a distance, New York City
Leonard Freed
1978
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 20 × 29.9 cm (7 7/8 × 11 3/4 in.) sheet: 28 × 35.3 cm (11 × 13 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Brigitte Freed
Accession Number
2017.166.22
About the Artist
Leonard Freed
Leonard Freed (1929–2006) was born in Brooklyn, New York, to working-class Jewish parents of Eastern European descent. He initially aspired to be a painter, but discovered photography while travelling in the Netherlands and was swiftly captivated by its capacity for immediate, unmediated witness. Returning to the United States, he studied under Alexey Brodovitch at The New School in New York, abso...