Estimate: € 3.500–4.000

Vintage silver print

6,3 x 10 cm

Signed by the photographer in pencil on the reverse

LITERATURE Leonard Freed, Black in White America, New York 1967, s.p. In early 1960s after a two year journey, hitchhiking through Europe and North Africa, Freed returned to America. He embarked on a project which was going to define his career; the documentation of Harlem and the Deep South, illustrating the inequalities between being black or white in 1960s. The astonishing images, also the present one, were published in Freed’s landmark book "Black in White America" (1967) and launched his photographic career. Freed would later to come to photograph civil rights figure Dr Martin Luther King (lot), the 1963 March on Washington and the rallies performed by the Congress of Racial equality.

Start price: €2.000