Darkroom Print: Harlem, New York, USA, 1963 Jazz Photographing mostly in exotic locales

Photographing mostly in exotic locales and at public events within the United States

Freed was in the early stages of what would become the landmark photo project

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Darkroom Print: Harlem, New York, USA, 1963 Jazz Photographing mostly in exotic localesOne 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