A black-and-white photograph of the body of a Black person on their stomach with a blood stain around their head between cars in a parking garage.

[Homicide in the garage of a lavish apartment building, Harlem, New York]

Leonard Freed (1929-2006)

Date

1972
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 6 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.
Sheet: 6 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.
Inscriptions

Verso:
u.r. stamped in black ink: 51
u.c. in red ink: 122 [underlined] lit[illeg.]
l. in graphite: [underlined] 1972 HARLEM, N.Y. - USA- / 72-19-20-24
r. printed on label [affixed vertically]: information/bild/läromedel / [logo] IBLAB / Box 52, 260 70 Ljungbyhed / Parkgatan 4 / Tel. 0435/407 65 [scratched out in black marker]
r. in blue ink: Violence & NY [written vertically]
l.: 72-19.20/24
l.c.: stamped in black ink: VINTAGE PRINT
l. c. signed in graphite: Leonard Freed
l.r. in black ink: 72.19.20\24
l.c. stamped in black ink: ©Leonard Freed-Magnum
l.r. stamped in blue ink: ©Leonard Freed-Magnum
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Brigitte Freed
Accession Number

P2019.106
Copyright

© Leonard Freed - Magnum - Brigitte Freed

Location: Off view

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