Leonard Freed

Leonard Freed (b.1929 d.2006) was born in Brooklyn New York, to working-class Jewish  parents of Eastern European descent. He was a long standing member of Magnum.

His original ambition was to become a painter, but in 1953, while visiting the Netherlands, he discovered photography. In 1954 he studied at the New School under Alexei Brodovitch.

Throughout the sixties he worked as a freelance journalist, traveling the globe, while documenting a wide variety of  subjects. From 1964-1965, he accompanied Martin Luther King during his Civil Rights March from Alabama to Washington D.C. The end result of this, was his 1968 book, Black in White America. He also published, Police Work, a notable book, that examined life inside the New York Police Department.

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