Hasidic Wedding, New York
1954, printed later
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 16 × 23.9 cm (6 5/16 × 9 7/16 in.) sheet: 24 × 29.8 cm (9 7/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Betsy Karel)
Accession Number
2015.19.5219
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...