Darkroom Print: Harlem, New York, USA, 1963 Framing:Unframed

Darkroom Print: Harlem, New York, USA, 1963 Framing:UnframedOne hot summer afternoon in 1963, Leonard Freed was wandering around Harlem when he captured this photograph of two young residents, in sheer delight, cooling off from the heat with an open fire hydrant, which had become a lifeline during heatwaves in the city. At the time, Freed was in the early stages of what would become the landmark photo project, Black in White America. Traveling to New York, Washington, D. C. and all across the south, the

small stories and big ideas that shook and shaped American identity

” The fact is

the photograph contrasts the geometric precision of the skyline with the rhythmic flow of traffic far below

With the participation of other educators

and vegetal life — a place where nature and humanity interact and in the process

framed against a gauzy window

There he captured images of the time he spent with the Black Panthers across the country in the early 1960s

The story told in A Room of Their Own is intended to share women’s experience of domestic abuse and the process of entering refuge alone

which depict the artist playing in the sand on the beach with his son and dutifully carrying a shade over Gilot’s head

from their pre-teen years to adolescence

The captions are also in Azeri and Georgian

What he found