Police checking a drug addict in Times Square, NYC

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Police checking a drug addict in Times Square, NYC
Police checking a drug addict in Times Square, NYC
Artist/Maker (American, 1929 - 2006)
Date1972
MediumVintage gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/16 × 5 7/8 in. (23 × 15 cm) Sheet: 9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in. (24 × 18 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.168
Not on view
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Additional Details

Markings Verso, upper left corner (label, black ink): [upside down] “MAG00100005- / 365”
Verso, lower center (stamp, black ink): “VINTAGE PRINT”
Verso, lower center edge (stamp, blue ink): “© Leonard Freed-Magnum”
Verso, lower center (stamp, black ink): “© Leonard Freed-Magnum”
Inscribed Verso, lower left (pencil): “1972”
Verso, lower right (black ink): “72.19.12/10”
Verso, lower left (red ink): “NEW YORK city: police checking / a times Square drug addict.” [sic]
Verso, lower right (pencil): “-USA.”
Verso, lower left edge (pencil): [sideways] "LFPW-322.2"
Verso, lower left edge (pencil): [sideways] "5000"
Injecting drug addict on stretcher at Bellevue Hospital, NYC
Injecting drug addict on stretcher at Bellevue Hospital, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1972
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.166
Police officer crouching in front of door in hallway during a night raid on drug pushers, NYC
Police officer crouching in front of door in hallway during a night raid on drug pushers, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1972
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.159
Police with drug dealer, NYC
Police with drug dealer, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.165
© 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
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Anti-Pornography Demonstration, Times Square, New York City, USA
Leonard Freed
Date: 1979
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.7.9
The call coming through the police radio said a woman was seen being dragged, screaming, into an overgrown lot. She was found...battered, drugged and unconscious. Though she was known along the street as an addict and a prostitute, all the other pimps and whores said they hadn't seen a thing. The girl later said she hadn't either, from the series "Police Work"
The call coming through the police radio said a woman was seen being dragged, screaming, into an overgrown lot. She was found...battered, drugged and unconscious. Though she was known along the street as an addict and a prostitute, all the other pimps and whores said they hadn't seen a thing. The girl later said she hadn't either, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1979
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.12.20
Police officers searching suspects in back of police station, NYC
Police officers searching suspects in back of police station, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1979
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.156
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The "shooting gallery" raid was over and the officers were leaving when from the back room an officer called for us to return. He had found something. Crouched and terrified in a closet was an addict, tourniquet on his upper arm, holding a syringe in his hand, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2014.8.43
The man showed his wounds from the drug wars. A few weeks later he was knifed again, from the series "Police Work"
The man showed his wounds from the drug wars. A few weeks later he was knifed again, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2015.12.21
© Leonard Freed. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinto…
The “shooting gallery” raid was over and the officers were leaving when from the back room an officer called for us to return. He had found something. Crouched and terrified in a closet was an addict, tourniquet on his upper arm, holding a syringe in his hand, from the series "Police Work"
Leonard Freed
Date: 1976
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2017.22.39
Inmate inside holding cell, 9th police precinct, NYC
Inmate inside holding cell, 9th police precinct, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.158
A retired policeman (seated in dark suit and hat) returns to the police station to check up on the detectives' day to day work, NYC
A retired policeman (seated in dark suit and hat) returns to the police station to check up on the detectives' day to day work, NYC
Leonard Freed
Date: 1975
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.160