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LEONARD FREED (1929-2006) joined MAGNUM In 1972. A member of the Magnum cooperative, his work is considered a milestone in what has been aptly called “concerned photography”.

"Ultimately, photography is about who you are. It's the seeking of truth in relation to yourself. And seeking truth becomes a habit."
- Leonard Freed -

Grossman Publishers, New York. 1970. First american edition, first printing. 

Signed by Leonard Freed (signatures by this artist are scarce).

True first printing of this fantastic photobook about germany - not to mix with the much later reprint by Steidl.

Here in the uncommon hardcover variant (not the much more common paperback edition) - with very scarce original dustjacket.

Excellent printing. 

Hardcover with dustjacket. 230 x 265 mm. 124 pages. 124 black and white photos. Text in english.

Condition:
Book at the bottom edge with little red pen mark, otherwise book inside and outside very fresh and flawless; clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket with little trace of use, lightly rubbed at the top and at the bottom of the spine, price-clipped at the top corner of the front flap, no other missing parts; so front, spine and rear side of the dustjacket complete and still very impressive. Overall fine condition.

Great photbook - signed by the artist.
If you win more than 1 book, you pay only 1 shipping rate.

"The American photographer Leonard Freed travelled to Germany for the first time in 1954. Curious and yet from a safe distance, he observed the people in their social surroundings, at work, at street festivals, in public parks, in the streets and against the industrial backdrop of the Ruhr Valley. The Germany he saw was deeply cursed with the effects of war and the NS regime - despite the country`s reconstruction, industrial development and economic success. Freed published his extensive report Made in Germany for the first time with Grossman Publishers in New York in 1970. The present reprint accompanies the same-named exhibition at Museum Folkwang in Essen and comes with a booklet Re-Made: Reading Leonard Freed providing extra information about Freed's approach and his times. The booklet is edited by Paul M. Farber and contains hitherto unpublished images, documents, and writing by Freed, spanning his fifty years of photographing Germany. Texts by Florian Ebner and Paul M. Farber." 
(text from Steidl, publisher of the reprint) 

"Leonard Freed is one of the twentieth century s most prominent documentary photographers. His photographs have graced the covers of major newspapers and magazines around the world on numerous occasions. A member of the Magnum cooperative, his work is considered a milestone in what has been aptly called "concerned photography". This book spans his full fifty-year career, including his coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the American civil rights movement, the period of post-war German reconstruction, and the Romanian revolution. Among other highlights is a selection of work from his famous project on the police, which culminated in a landmark publication, Police Work. Freed s vision is sharp, insightful and critical, but always deeply sympathetic to his fellow human beings. Freed has made a point of steering clear of easy sentimentality without giving way to its opposite heartless critique; the often tender moments he observes are thus tinged with life s harsher realities. Leonard Freed was born in 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, to a working-class Jewish family from Eastern Europe. He began taking photographs in 1955, while travelling in Europe. In 1972 he joined Magnum Photos. Many of Freed s photographs have been published in the international press, including Der Spiegel, Der Stern, The London Sunday Times Magazine, GEO, L Express, Libération, The New York Times Magazine, and Fortune. Leonard Freed passed away in 2006."
(Magnum website)

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