Tag: Jill Freedman

  • Four Years Embedded with the N.Y.P.D. | The New Yorker

    Four Years Embedded with the N.Y.P.D. | The New Yorker

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    Four Years Embedded with the N.Y.P.D. In the late seventies, Jill Freedman set out to create a clear-eyed portrait of New York City police. What she made was something more complicated. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/four-years-embedded-with-the-nypd Inevitably, the spirit of Weegee haunts Jill Freedman’s photographs of New York street cops. Both worked in inky, matter-of-fact…

  • How one photographer shared America’s untold stories

    How one photographer shared America’s untold stories

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    How one photographer shared America’s untold stories Just before Jill Freedman died last October, she concocted a plan to have her home health aid meet her at her apartment at 10 in the morning. “I’m getting out of here,” Freedman said over the phone, before wheeling herself towards the exit of the rehabili via Huck…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Cheryl Dunn Remembers Photographer Jill Freedman, Who Died this Week at the Age of 79

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Cheryl Dunn Remembers Photographer Jill Freedman, Who Died this Week at the Age of 79 Jill Freedman was in a league of her own. Some people knew her work but many more should have. She was elusive and forthright and not beholden to anyo… Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/remembering-photographer-jill-freedman-who-died-this-week-at-the-age-of-79/ Jill Freedman was in a league…

  • Finding Inspiration in the Struggle at Resurrection City – The New York Times

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    [contentcards url=”https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/finding-inspiration-in-the-struggle-at-resurrection-city/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body”] Finding Inspiration in the Struggle at Resurrection City – The New York Times Devastated by the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jill Freedman quit her copywriting job at a New York advertising agency and headed to Washington, D.C., to protest poverty and live among shacks and tents on the…

  • Jill Freedman: For Life – The Eye of Photography

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    Jill Freedman: For Life These here are some real New York ladies.” Nobody had ever come to my defense like this. It was a snowy January afternoon. The weather was cold but the mood was cheerful. Jill and I had just left her apartment in Harlem, near West 100th street, Morningside Park and the majestic…

  • Cops, Clowns and Cameras

    Cops, Clowns and Cameras

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    Cops, Clowns and Cameras The photographer Jill Freedman — at 74, “still like a rebellious adolescent” — may not be a household name, but her photography, and her life story, could fill volumes. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/cops-clowns-and-cameras/?_r=0 Jill Freedman was always attracted to closed societies, groups that didn’t much want her as a member. But…