Club Performers, Atlanta, 1996 by Leonard Freed is an 11" x 14" vintage print, stamped on verso (back of photo) with Freed's copyright stamp and signed (back of photo) by the artist, and hand-printed by the photographer.
Club Performers captures a backstage scene of dancers in a night club. A candid shot of the dancers in a dressing room where the women enjoy a performance break. Freed captures the women's joking around and camaraderie.
Throughout Freed’s career he tackled social issues for which the photographer became well-known in the US and abroad. Freed travelled from the east coast to the Deep South, documenting notably the 1960s civil rights movement. His photo series Black in White America contributed to Freed's becoming one of the well-known “concerned photographers” in the USA in the latter half of the 20th Century.
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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Club Performers captures a backstage scene of dancers in a night club. A candid shot of the dancers in a dressing room where the women enjoy a performance break. Freed captures the women's joking around and camaraderie.
Throughout Freed’s career he tackled social issues for which the photographer became well-known in the US and abroad. Freed travelled from the east coast to the Deep South, documenting notably the 1960s civil rights movement. His photo series Black in White America contributed to Freed's becoming one of the well-known “concerned photographers” in the USA in the latter half of the 20th Century.
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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Available at 99Prints NYC an online art marketplace for today’s collector of contemporary art, works on paper, original and limited edition photography. Based in New York City, 99Prints ships worldwide.