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| In 1999
we wrote "Magnum pictures
Leonard
Freed telephoned
the other day to say hi and that he was in London. We talked about the
assignment workshop last summer when the group ‘did’ the 41st Annual
International Folk Festival (in Sidmouth of all places) and suggested that one
day he should cover the Annual Incredible Bonfire Carnival Processions, Public
Fireworks and festivities which start in Bridgwater on the Thursday nearest to
Guy Fawkes night. Bridgwater being the area of the last rebellion on English
soil (1685 - just after Duckspool was extended). The carnivalites of the
area still know how to create an impressive event. Reckoned to be the biggest
float carnival in Europe (and they are really big, they are mechanical, and lit
with thousands of lights!). Leonard’s interest has been aroused and he’s
coming down here – so if your are into reportage, the challenge of assignment,
and the pleasure of working with Leonard as ‘Editor’ and, into the bargain,
taking home a picture story for publication about the UK’s annual obsession in
a 17th century attempt to bring back anarchy and blow-up parliament!, then be
here!" |
About
Leonard Freed
| "Photography is like
life... What does it all mean? I don't know - but you get an impression, a
feeling.... An impression of walking through the street, walking through
the park, walking through life. I'm very suspicious of people who say they
know what it means." |
Born in 1929 in Brooklyn, New York. During a wandering
adolescence, lasting some 50 years, he discovered photography which, as he says, allowed
him, "... to wander at last with a purpose".
Freed became famous first for his involvement with the American civil rights
movement, then with the 1980 publication of his book Police Work which made, in
words and pictures, shocking statements about brutality while questioning our
need for authority.
Photography became his way of exploring complex issues such
as societal violence and racial discrimination (including a study of the Ku Klux
Klan), German society and his own Jewish roots in numerous books and films.
He studied with Alexey Brodovitch
in 1955 and has shown himself to be an untiring correspondent of Post War Germany, the
Arab-Israeli wars, a privileged witness to the lives of black Americans and more recently
the Romanian revolution.
A member of Magnum since 1972, he is widely published in the
international press; notably Stern, The Sunday Times, The New York Magazine and Geo.
Exhibitions include What is Man, The Spectre of Violence, Made in Germany, The Concerned
Photographer, and Police Work, while his numerous publications include Black in White
America, Leonard Freed's Germany and Police Work, with a major
monograph Leonard Freed, Photographs 1954-1990.
He has also shot four films for Japanese, Dutch and Belgium television.
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