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Artist/Maker
Leonard Freed
(American, 1929 - 2006)
Date1978
MediumVintage gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 5/8 × 5 13/16 in. (21.9 × 14.8 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 6 3/4 in. (23.2 × 17.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.151
Not on view
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Additional Details
Markings
Verso, upper left (label, printed black ink): “MAG00100707 / 011”
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, lower left (stamp, blue ink): [at a diagonal] “Ausschnitt siehe Schema” [translation: “Detail see Diagram”
Verso, lower center (stamp, black ink): [sideways] “1116 Nr. 25 / 102/B / ____ Blaukopien” [translation: “blue copies”]
Verso, lower right (stamp, black ink): “VINTAGE PRINT”
Verso, lower right (stamp, black ink): “© Leonard Freed-Magnum”
Verso, lower center (typed, blue ink): “Photo.22”
Verso, lower center (typed, blue ink): “(78.9.55/10) a distraught woman and her son sprawled at the feet of / a policeman, during a street firing incident.”
Verso, lower center (yellow paper label residue): no text
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, lower left (stamp, blue ink): [at a diagonal] “Ausschnitt siehe Schema” [translation: “Detail see Diagram”
Verso, lower center (stamp, black ink): [sideways] “1116 Nr. 25 / 102/B / ____ Blaukopien” [translation: “blue copies”]
Verso, lower right (stamp, black ink): “VINTAGE PRINT”
Verso, lower right (stamp, black ink): “© Leonard Freed-Magnum”
Verso, lower center (typed, blue ink): “Photo.22”
Verso, lower center (typed, blue ink): “(78.9.55/10) a distraught woman and her son sprawled at the feet of / a policeman, during a street firing incident.”
Verso, lower center (yellow paper label residue): no text
Published References
Illustrated: Leonard Freed: Police Work, pl. 52
Signature
Verso, lower right (pencil): “leonard freed”
Inscribed
Verso, upper left corner (black marker): "NYC 2.6.1"
Verso, upper left edge (pencil): [sideways] "ille' TV 25 / 22/A"
Verso, lower left corner (pencil): "LFPW-052.05"
Verso, upper left edge (pencil): "7500-"
Verso, center (pencil): "1978 NEW YORK CITY. USA."
Verso, lower right edge (pencil): [sideways] “Legende 1X27signes”
Verso, upper left edge (pencil): [sideways] "ille' TV 25 / 22/A"
Verso, lower left corner (pencil): "LFPW-052.05"
Verso, upper left edge (pencil): "7500-"
Verso, center (pencil): "1978 NEW YORK CITY. USA."
Verso, lower right edge (pencil): [sideways] “Legende 1X27signes”
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