A Bedouin man looking through a window, Negev Desert, Israel
Leonard Freed, American, 1929 - 2006
1962
Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Sheet: 6 1/8 × 10 1/16 in. (15.5 × 25.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Ellen and Scott Osman, Class of 1980, Jake Osman, Class of 2015, and Lily Osman
2014.109.7
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, titled, dated with various agency stamps and annotations on verso. Signed, on reverse, in graphite, lower right: Leonard Freed; numbered, on reverse, in graphite, upper left: LFARB-30; inscribed, on reverse, in blue ink, upper left facing up: 66760; inscribed, on reverse, in graphite, center left: 30676; inscribed, on reverse, in graphite, lower left: 1962 NEGEV DESERT. ISRAEL.; inscribed, on reverse, in graphite, lower left: UNIQUE; inscribed, on reverse, in graphite, upper right: ISRAEL; inscribed, on reverse, in red ink: E-8-a; inscribed, on reverse, in blue ink, lower right facing up: 2607x; inscribed, on reverse, in graphite, lower right: 4.5; stamped, on reverse, in purple ink, upper center: LEONARD FREED / Burg. Roëllstraat 209 / AMSTERDAM-W. (HOLLAND) / TELEF. 13 47 23; stamped, on reverse, in blue ink, lower center: MAGNUM / PHOTO LIBRARY PRINT / NEW YORK / LOG REF. / TO BE RETURNED.; stamped, on reverse, in black ink, lower left: c [encircled] Leonard Freed-Magnum; label, on reverse, inscribed, in black ink, upper center: C2 86869; label, on reverse, printed, lower center: M11o/2 Der Lehrer in der Wüste / Ein Beduinenvater sieht durch Fenster in die Klasse, neugierig, / intressiert und vielleicht ein bisschen wehmütig, dass er als Kind / nicht lesen und schreiben lernen konnte und es nicht versteht, mit / den wunderlichen Büchern, Farbstiften, Linealen usw. umzugehen. [The teacher in the desert / A Bedouin father looks through a window into a classroom, curious, interested and perhaps a bit wistful that he couldn't learn to read and write as a child and that he doesn't understand how to deal with the wondrous books, colored pencils, rulers, etc.]
Provenance
Harley and Stephen C. Osman, Stamford, Connecticut; lent to present collection, 2014; Ellen, Scott, Jake and Lily Osman, New York, New York; given to present collection, 2014.
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