Homicide in the garage of a lavish apartment building. This had all the markings of a Mafia killing. It was explained to me that the Mafia hires skilled lawyers to advise on such things. The man had been shot three times in the back of the head. In order to convict, the state would have to find the three guns, the three men that did the killing, and then prove which of the three bullets actually killed the man, and who fired which gun, New York City
Leonard Freed
1972
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 20.1 × 30.1 cm (7 15/16 × 11 7/8 in.) sheet: 28 × 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
2017.166.26
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...