DATE: May 27, 2009
Leonard Freed, Black in White America, New York, 1963. Courtesy Silverstein Gallery.The best evidence of his concern may be his 1968 book, "Black in White America," the subject of a timely exhibition at the Silverstein gallery. Freed travelled throughout the segregated South, but only occasionally worked the front lines of the civil-rights struggle. He was more interested in the lives of the ordinary black Americans.
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Vince Aletti reviews Leonard Freed Exhibit at Silverstein Gallery
Leonard Freed was one of the six photographers first identified as "concerned" by Cornell Capa. Like André Kertész, Werner Bischof, and Capa's brother Robert, Freed was an artist with a deeply humanist bent—an engaged photojournalist, never a dispassionate observer.
Leonard Freed, Black in White America, New York, 1963. Courtesy Silverstein Gallery.Read the complete review in The New Yorker.
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