Magnum Poster: Harlem, New York, 1963 Moments in History

Magnum Poster: Harlem, New York, 1963 Moments in HistoryBorn in Brooklyn, New York, to working class Jewish parents of Eastern European descent, Leonard Freed first wanted to become a painter. However, he began taking photographs while in the Netherlands in 1953 and discovered that this was where his passion lay. In 1954, after trips throughout Europe and North Africa, he returned to the United States and studied in Alexei Brodovitchs design laboratory. He moved to Amsterdam in 1958 and photographed the

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becoming internationally renowned for photographing the greatest living figures in jazz

who she was alleged to have had an affair with

the sea runs off distorting the vision

Hiroji Kubota has long been documenting the contradictions at play in East Asia

Ukraine exploded

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an overseas region of France with a complicated and violent colonial past

at the age of 28

Martin Luther King Jr gave a speech

whom he had met in Manchester

The Suffering of Light was originally published by Aperture in 2011