Lenard Freed.
He was born in New York city in 1929 to a working class family, he wanted to become a painter but later on life he found his talent for photography and began work in that media. Edward Steichen loved his work so much that he brought three of him images for the Museum of Modern Art.
In the early 60’s he pursued a collection of photographs on the black culture and how they were segregated and treated in there community. He would use his work to express the feelings of others and to tell a story of suffering, he told manly stories one of his main ones was called ‘Police Work’ were he looked at the brutality of the police force. In this book he used his images along with words to show the statement of brutality. He even did one film called ‘Joey Goes to Wigstock’ in 1993.
He also confronted people like the KKK and the German society, he has had manly books publish and they are still on sale today. I really like his work and how he uses it to confront people who do harm to others. He tries to use his work as an expression of pain to show the world what is truly going on behind close doors. I find his work to be very moving and hard hitting and that is something that I tried to explore in my own images but did not do an over all job of really hitting the viewer with intense feelings like he does. I also like how his work is done in black and white giving an even darker tone to his work, as I feel it makes his work rather sinister in its feelings.
Bibliography:
The Century of the body
Thames & Hudson
2000
http://www.brillgallery109.com/exhibits/freed/biography.php
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