An officer told me, "I get home after a drunk has spewed all over me and the wife says I stink; she doesn't want me near her. I smell of vomit, shit.", NYC

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An officer told me, "I get home after a drunk has spewed all over me and the wife says I stink; she doesn't want me near her. I smell of vomit, shit.", NYC
An officer told me, "I get home after a drunk has spewed all over me and the wife says I stink; she doesn't want me near her. I smell of vomit, shit.", NYC
Artist/Maker (American, 1929 - 2006)
Date1978
MediumVintage gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 1/8 × 9 in. (15.5 × 22.9 cm) Sheet: 7 1/16 × 9 3/8 in. (17.9 × 23.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.150
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Markings Verso, upper left corner (label, printed black ink): “MAG00100707- / 447”
Verso, upper 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”
Verso, center (stamp, black ink): “VINTAGE PRINT”
Verso, lower left (typed, blue ink): “Photo.7.”
Verso, lower center (typed, blue ink): “(78.9.10/36a) a drunken alcaholic sprawled on the sidewalk resisting help from friends, as a NY policeman watches.”
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 right (stamp, black ink): “PRINT MUST BE RETURNED”
Verso, lower right (stamp, black ink): “© Leonard Freed-Magnum”
Published References Illustrated: Leonard Freed: Police Work, pl. 45
Signature Verso, lower right (pencil): “leonard freed”
Inscribed Verso, lower left corner (pencil): "LFPW-045.09"
Verso, upper left edge (pencil): "7500-"
Verso, upper right edge (black marker): [sideways] "NYC 2.6.1"
Verso, center (pencil): "1978 NEW YORK CITY. USA."
The parish priest Ramonet: "I left for the Ile de Sein with a book on Gurdjieff that was supposed to get me back into shape. I barely looked at it. Thanks to Felix Guilcher, a real, lyrical and discreet hero, a rare friend discovered over there, to a Parish Priest, and to all the islanders, more islander than Breton, I soon felt quite at home, something quite unexpected, indeed inconceivable. Happy and calm, I was protected from the distant continent by a superb and pitiless sea. On Sein, I finally told myself "they'll never get me!". I'll never be able to repay my debt to the Sein Islanders for what they gave me
The parish priest Ramonet: "I left for the Ile de Sein with a book on Gurdjieff that was supposed to get me back into shape. I barely looked at it. Thanks to Felix Guilcher, a real, lyrical and discreet hero, a rare friend discovered over there, to a Parish Priest, and to all the islanders, more islander than Breton, I soon felt quite at home, something quite unexpected, indeed inconceivable. Happy and calm, I was protected from the distant continent by a superb and pitiless sea. On Sein, I finally told myself "they'll never get me!". I'll never be able to repay my debt to the Sein Islanders for what they gave me
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
Date: 1956
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.197
The man was found lying in the street. He will be sent to a hospital. "I don't smoke, but I carry a pack with me. They're useful in such situations," said the officer, from the series "Police Work"
The man was found lying in the street. He will be sent to a hospital. "I don't smoke, but I carry a pack with me. They're useful in such situations," said the officer, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.12.22
Pigeonnet, je suis innonde, et je souscris en ma faveur.....hatons-nous de me porter les premiers secours. (Pigeonnet, I am overwhelmed, and I am subscribing in my favor.....let us speed up to bring me help.)
Pigeonnet, je suis innonde, et je souscris en ma faveur.....hatons-nous de me porter les premiers secours. (Pigeonnet, I am overwhelmed, and I am subscribing in my favor.....let us speed up to bring me help.)
Paul Gavarni
Date: 1855
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Object number: 1988.13
Madman in the straw: "a sinister corridor. From behind heavy doors escape the repulsive groans and sickening odors of the mad vomiters doing a cure of disgust (on cheap wine). Behind the last door, a premature madman, naked in the straw. I photographed him through the thick murky glass of his spyhole, licked again and again, without seeing anything (reflex cameras didn't exist at the time). At 2 am, I finally convince the charming head doctor, worn down by my arguments, to let me take the picture in my own way", Psychiatric hospital
Madman in the straw: "a sinister corridor. From behind heavy doors escape the repulsive groans and sickening odors of the mad vomiters doing a cure of disgust (on cheap wine). Behind the last door, a premature madman, naked in the straw. I photographed him through the thick murky glass of his spyhole, licked again and again, without seeing anything (reflex cameras didn't exist at the time). At 2 am, I finally convince the charming head doctor, worn down by my arguments, to let me take the picture in my own way", Psychiatric hospital
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier
Date: 1954
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2022.15.198
Satan, Don’t Get Thee Behind Me!, from "Harper's Weekly"
Satan, Don’t Get Thee Behind Me!, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published August 17, 1872
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.197
Photograph by John Bentham.
Yakima or Yakama – Not For Me To Say
Wendy Red Star
Date: 2016
Medium: Lithograph with inkjet print
Object number: 2016.18
© LaToya Ruby Frazier. Image courtesy Light Work, Syracuse, NY.
Grandma Ruby and Me in Her Livingroom, from the series "The Notion of Family"
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Date: 2007 (printed and published 2017)
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2017.15.3
© Matt Eich. Image courtesy Light Work, Syracuse, NY.
The Road Home (As the Winter Snows Melt), from the series "Carry Me Ohio"
Matt Eich
Date: 2007 (printed and published 2017)
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2017.15.2
Junie Moon: Liza Minnelli on the docks of Kona Marina during the filming of "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon", San Diego
Junie Moon: Liza Minnelli on the docks of Kona Marina during the filming of "Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon", San Diego
Burt Glinn
Date: 1969
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2021.12.129
© Leonard Freed. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinto…
On a warm July day neighborhood children play in a patrol car. At another time, an officer reminisced about wintry midnight tours, about the isolation he felt in the patrol car. Night after night he drove the same streets saw the same drunks, homeless ones, addicts, whom he had to move on, clearing the street. He had his anxieties. What, he wondered, would he do if one night they were gone? Whom would he talk to?, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.35
A young black boy who says he is left alone in the city comes to the 9th Precinct for help and protection, NYC
A young black boy who says he is left alone in the city comes to the 9th Precinct for help and protection, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.172
Toi et Moi (You and Me)
Toi et Moi (You and Me)
Karel Appel
Date: 1963
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1984.57