Kate #16, is from the Kate series, 2002 by American photographer Leonard Freed. This is a signed, 16" x 20" black and white photograph (gelatin silver), stamped/authenticated modern print by the Freed estate. Printed: 2006.
A photographer herself, model and yogini Kate remains complicit in striking a pose, nude, in a convertible with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. The model's body shape and form blend with the natural beauty of the California setting. Freed captures both playfulness and sensuality of a self-possessed woman.
The Kate nude photo series became a welcome aesthetic reprieve for Freed who during a long photo career tackled social-documentary subjects for which he spent many years abroad.
Provenance: Freed Estate
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Artist's Bio:
Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian, a social documentary photographer. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police department (1972-79). Freed's coverage of the American civil rights movement is well-known as are his photo essays on New York, Italy, Germany, The Kate Series, among others.
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