Muscle Boy by Leonard Freed, Harlem, Black-and-White Photography of African American Children 1960s Europe embracing as if nothing else

embracing as if nothing else mattered

astronaut David Scott stands in an open hatch of the command module Gumdrop in space

Provenance: Haas Estate

model Kate remains complicit in striking dramatic poses for the nude series

and simplicity of childhood experienced on the steamy asphalt streets of Harlem

Muscle Boy by Leonard Freed, Harlem, Black-and-White Photography of African American Children 1960s Europe embracing as if nothing elseMuscle Boy, Harlem, 1963 by Leonard Freed is a signed and numbered archival Iris print sized 20" x 16". This edition 25 100 in a planned edition of 100 was halted at 25 prints (as annotated on verso and signed by Freed's widow, Brigitte Freed). In short Muscle Boy is the last print in a final edition of 25. Muscle Boy is an iconic image by Leonard Freed who was a pioneer in socially conscious photojournalism. This is the cover of "Black in White