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67 In the early 1960s after a two year
LEONARD FREED journey hitchhiking through Europe
(1929–2006) and North Africa, Freed returned
to America. He embarked on a
Harlem, New York City, project which was going to define
1963 his career; the documentation
of Harlem and the Deep South,
Vintage silver print illustrating the inequalities between
6,3 × 10 cm (2.5 × 3.9 in) being black or white in 1960s. The
Signed by the photographer astonishing images, also the present
in pencil on the reverse one, were published in Freed’s land-
LITERATURE mark book Black in White America
Leonard Freed, Black in White (1967) and launched his photo-
America, New York 1967, s. p. graphic career. Freed would later
to come to photograph civil rights
€ 2.000 / € 3.500–4.000 figure Dr. Martin Luther King (lot
81), the 1963 March on Washington
and the rallies performed by the
Congress of Racial equality.
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