A Young Man Explains to Police How the Car was Wrecked

Leonard Freed, American, 1929 - 2006

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1976

Gelatin silver print

Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.3 cm)

Image: 6 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (15.9 × 24.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Harley and Stephen Osman, Class of 1956, Tuck 1957

2013.82.22

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, on reverse, in graphite, lower right: Leonard Freed; numbered, on reverse, in graphite, upper left: LF-PW-104.03 / 6000; numbered, on reverse, in graphite, center: 79-7-2-10; inscribed, on reverse, in red ink, upper left: POLICE WORK; inscribed, on reverse, in graphite, lower left: 1979 NEW YORK CITY – USA; inscribed, on reverse, in graphite, lower center: UNIQUE; stamped, on reverse, in purple ink, upper left: c [encircled] Leonard Freed / Magnum Photos Inc.; stamped, on reverse, in purple ink, upper left: BOOK PRINTS; stamped, on reverse, in black ink, upper center: MAGNUM / PHOTO LIBRARY PRINT / NEW YORK / LOG REF: 17410 [inscribed, in graphite; circled] / TO BE RETURNED; several other numbers in graphite

Course History

ANTH 73.01, Main Currents in Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Winter 2022

Anthropology 73.01, Main Currents in Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Spring 2024

Provenance

Harley and Stephen C. Osman, Stamford, Connecticut; given to present collection, 2013.

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