At night in a police station, the minors are set out of the cells. Mostly small-town teenage runaways, still wearing their mothers' lipstick, are picked up at night either by the police or pimps. "These girls in the picture are lucky; the pimps haven't gotten to them yet," said the fatherly officer. "They sleep the night here and in the morning we turn them over to the social workers," New York City
1972
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22 × 32.9 cm (8 11/16 × 12 15/16 in.) sheet: 27.9 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Brigitte Freed
Accession Number
2017.166.23
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...