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The neighborhood gathered to watch. Somewhere within the building a man was concealed with a gun
The neighborhood gathered to watch. Somewhere within the building a man was concealed with a gun
Artist/Maker (American, 1929 - 2006)
Date1976
MediumVintage gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 × 9 in. (15.3 × 22.9 cm) Sheet: 7 1/16 × 9 7/16 in. (17.9 × 24 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.149
Not on view
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Markings Verso, upper left corner (label, printed black ink): “MAG00100707- / 405”
Verso, upper right (label, printed black ink): “[bar code] E00069542 / ORIGINAL / MAGNUM PHOTOS”
Verso, center (typed, blue ink): “`New York’s 'Ninth Precinct Police Station' the home of Kojak. March 79 / The 9th Precinct runs from 14th Street down Houston and Broadway to the East River, the area is an ugly and terrifying place which is the home of / the terrorists of the Puerto Rican F.A.L.N., the Black Liberation Army, / and HQ of NY’s Hell’s Angels. It is the worst block in the city, with its / stinking tenements with no heat, burnt out buildings, drunken derelicts / and junkies, muggers and rapists. You would not want to be in the 9th Pre- / cinct after dark if you could help it. To TV viewers around the world, / Kojak has brought them the realities of crime in the big cities, also / this police station where Kojak is filmed. Psycho stabbers roam the / dark streets and since 1967 over 3,000 policemen have been killed in / America in the performance of their duties, and not one perpetrator has / gone to the electric chair. In NY alone there are over 2,000 homicides / a year and some cops feel it’s time to return to vigilantes and / frontier justice. / (NY Times Magazine 21 January 1979) -Photos Leonard Freed/MAGNUM D 79-2”
Verso, lower center (stamp, black ink): “VINTAGE PRINT”
Verso, lower left (typed, blue ink): “Photo.9.”
Verso, lower center (typed, blue ink): “(78/19/50/28a) a criminal has just escaped a police chase in the 9th Precinct, police with bullet proof vests and rifles try to hunt him down in the derelict buildings.”
Verso, lower left (stamp, black ink): “REPRODUCTION FEE PAYABLE TO / JOHN HILLELSON / AGENCY LTD. / 145 FLEET ST., LONDON, E.C.4. / Tel. 01-353 4551/2”
Verso, lower center (stamp, black ink): “PRINT MUST BE RETURNED”
Verso, lower right (stamp, black ink): “TIRAGE ARCHIVE MAGNUM PHOTOS / 20 rue des Grands Augustins, 75006 PARIS / EPREUVE á RENDRE / No / MAGNUM PARIS LIBRARY / PRINT TO BE RETURNED”
Verso, lower center edge (stamp, black ink): “© Leonard Freed-Magnum”
Published References Illustrated: Leonard Freed: Police Work, pl. 34
Signature Verso, lower center (pencil): “leonard freed”
Inscribed Verso, lower left corner (pencil): "LFPW-034.07"
Verso, upper left edge (pencil): "6000-"
Verso, upper right edge (black marker): [sideways] "NYC 2.6.1"
Verso, lower left (pencil): "1978 NEW YORK CITY – USA – "
© Leonard Freed. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinto…
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