Kate #14, Female Nude Series, Black and White Vintage Photograph of Couple by Leonard Freed
Kate #14, Female Nude Series, Black and White Vintage Photograph of Couple by Leonard Freed
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Kate #14, Female Nude Series, Black and White Vintage Photograph of Couple by Leonard Freed

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Leonard Freed’s stamped vintage (verso), 16" x 20", gelatin silver print, Kate #14, is from the Kate series, 2002. A photographer herself, model Kate remains complicit in striking dramatic poses for the nude series by Freed.

In this image Kate is supine, arms outstretched, body arched on the backside of a man in the yoga pose downward dog. On the edge of a cliff with the ebb and flow of the sea and waves many feet below, the couple rest precariously in balance above swirling waters. Kate's trust in the universe, a face of abandon, reveals youthful fearlessness and love of freedom. Freed captures a self-possessed modern woman and a dance of sorts that Kate shares with a male partner on the edge of time.

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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