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Jill Freedman (October 19, 1939 – October 9, 2019) was an American
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and
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. She was based in New York City.


Early life and education

Freedman was born in the
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neighborhood of
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to a traveling salesman and a nurse. As an adult Freedman photographed extensively in Ireland, quipping "I'm Jewish, but I adopted Ireland as my own old country". In 1961, Freedman graduated from the
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with a major in
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. In 1964 Freedman came to New York City and had several temporary jobs including advertising copywriter. She only discovered photography while experimenting with a friend's camera.


Career

After college, Freedman went to
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, where she worked on a
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. She ran out of money and sang to make a living; she continued singing in Paris and on a television variety show in London. Freedman arrived in New York City in 1964, and worked in advertising and as a copywriter. As a photographer, she was self-taught, influenced by
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, idolizing W. Eugene Smith, but primarily helped by her poodle Fang:
When I was out walking in the street with Fang I saw everything, felt everything. He had a great instinct. He taught me how to look, because he never missed a thing.
Andy Grundberg would also note the influences on her style of Smith,
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,
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, Leonard Freed, and
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; but would add that: "To appreciate erphotographs one needs to consider their substance, not their style. . . . Human relationships – especially the bonds of brotherhood – fascinate her." On hearing of the
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, Freedman quit her job and went to
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. She lived in Resurrection City, a shantytown put up by the
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on Washington Mall in 1968, and photographed there. Photographs from the series were published at the time in ''
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'', and collected in Freedman's first book, ''Old News: Resurrection City'', in 1970. A. D. Coleman wrote of the book:
It is a very personal yet highly objective statement, filled with passion, warmth, sorrow and humor. Freedman's pictures are deft and strong; her text witty, sardonic and honest, with quirky insights and touching moments of self-revelation. A brave and moving book.
Freedman then lived in a
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, following the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus. For two months, she photographed "two shows a day and one show each Sunday. Seven weeks of one night stands", and moving across New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania and Ohio. She wanted to photograph the performers as people. ("If I wanted to do freaks, I'd do guys wearing ties in 100-degree weather – to me that's freaks.") Coleman wrote:
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both the photographer's own responses to people and the personalities of her subjects. The moments she selects are significant emotionally as well as graphically. Her images exclude the extraneous in an inconspicuous way, and her sense of timing and gesture . . . is uncanny.
The work was published as a book, ''Circus Days'', in 1975. Freedman photographed the then sleazy area of
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and the arts scene in
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and
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. In 1975, Freedman started to photograph firefighters around
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and the
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. This took her two years; she lived with the firefighters, sleeping in the chief's car and on the floor. This resulted in a book, ''Firehouse'', published in 1977 – according to one review, a book "flawed . . . by poor reproduction and inept layout". Some of the firefighters had previously been policemen, and they suggested that Freedman might photograph police work. Freedman had disliked the police but reasoned that there must be good policemen among them. For her series ''Street Cops'' (1978–1981), she accompanied the police to an area of New York City including
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and
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, spending time with those who seemed good cops. The work resulted in the book ''Street Cops''. A contemporary reviewer for ''
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'' started by observing that "the passionate photojournalistic essay of yesterday" was "an endangered species", before saying that it lived on in photobooks such as this one. The reviewer described ''Street Cops'' as " elebratingthe heroism, compassion, and humor of New York police professionals", and saying that the book "is traditional and satisfying in that it accomplishes a blend rarely successful – or even attempted – these days: an organic fusion of words and photographs". On photographing in New York at the time:
Hiding behind a camera,
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found her subjects where others were not looking – "beggars, panhandlers, people sleeping on the street," the police and the firefighters, the people washed ashore by forces bigger than themselves. "It's the theater of the streets," she said. "The weirder, the better."
During the seventies, Freedman was briefly associated with
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, but did not become a member. She wanted to tell stories via photography, but also wanted to avoid the schmoozing required to get commissions; and she therefore set her own tasks. She had difficulty making a living, but sold prints from a stand set up outside the Whitney Museum building. In 1983, ''New York Times'' critic Andy Grunberg recognized her black and white street photography in New York, grouping Freedman with
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, Fred R. Conrad, Bruce Davidson, Roy DeCarava, Bill Cunningham, Sara Krulwich and
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. In 1988, Freedman discovered that she was ill. The medical expenses meant that she had to leave her apartment above the Sullivan Street Playhouse; in 1991, she moved to
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; she was dissatisfied there but was able to read a lot. She sometimes worked for the ''
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''. She also managed to publish a photobook of dogs that was praised for " efyingthe clichéd images" of dog photography. She also published the second of two photobooks of Ireland, one that ''
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'' said "lovingly captures the enduring aspects of Irish tradition". Around 2003, Freedman moved back to New York. She was shocked and saddened by its sanitization during her absence: "When I saw that they had turned 42nd Street into Disneyland, . . . I just stood there and wept." She moved to a place near Morningside Park in 2007, and was still living there in 2015. During the earlier part of her career, Freedman was captivated by the
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process. She shot
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and liked to use a 35 mm lens and
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, and to print on
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. As of late 2016, she neither had a darkroom nor missed having one: she emphasized that the camera, whether film or digital, was merely a tool. When asked on another occasion, she approvingly cited
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on not being boring and attempting to do excellent work; technical questions and even posterity should not be a concern. Freedman was one of 13 photographers shown photographing New York in ''Everybody Street'', a 2013 film by
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. Together with
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, Alex Webb,
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,
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and Matt Stuart, she was a featured guest in the Miami Street Photography Festival 2016 at HistoryMiami Museum during Art Basel week. Grundberg wrote in 1982 that "Indignation over injustice is the major key in reedman'swork, admiration for life's survivors the minor key." Maggie Steber has said of Freedman:
I think she's been thoroughly under-recognized. . . . To me, Jill is one of the great American photographers. Always has been and always will be.
In 2016, Freedman's work and career, especially her images of New York City, was the subject of renewed interest, appearing in multiple ''
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'' articles, including their 2016 photography issue and at Art Basel Miami.


Personal life

In her later life, Freedman lived in
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. On October 9, 2019, Freedman died from complications of cancer at a care facility in Manhattan.


Awards

* 1973:
National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the feder ...
, Photography Fellowship * 1974:
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, Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS) Photography Grant * 1982: Leica Medal of Excellence (first recipient, with
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and
Mary Ellen Mark Mary Ellen Mark (March 20, 1940 – May 25, 2015) was an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were "away from mainstream society and t ...
) * 1994:
Alicia Patterson Foundation The Alicia Patterson Foundation (APF) program was established in 1965 in memory of Alicia Patterson, who was the editor and publisher of ''Newsday ''Newsday'' is a daily newspaper in the United States primarily serving Nassau and Suffolk c ...
, Fellowship for ''The Holocaust, 50 Years Later'' * 2001:
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, Honorary Fellowship


Exhibitions


Solo exhibitions

* ''Jill Freedman: Pictures from New York'',
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, London, March 1974. * ''The Circus and Other Scenes'', The Photographers' Gallery, London, June 1974. * ''Jill Freedman'', The Photographers' Gallery, London, June 1976. * PhotoGraph Gallery, New York, January 1982. * University Center Gallery,
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, Madison, New Jersey, May 1982. * ''Street Cops: Jill Freedman'', The Photographers' Gallery, London, September–October 1982. * ''Jill Freedman Photographs'',
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, Columbia College, Chicago, December 1984 – January 1985. * ''Street Cops'',
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, Ginza, Tokyo, 1985. * ''Jill Freedman: 60's to the present'', Witkin Gallery, New York City, December 1996 – January 1997. * ''Laughter and Love: A Romp through Ireland'', M. J. Ellenbogen Photography, White Plains, NY, March 2006. *''Here and There'', A.M. Richard Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York, April–May 2007. Paired with an exhibition, ''Photographs of 42nd Street'', by Andrew Garn. * ''Resurrection City 1968'', Higher Pictures, New York City, April–May 2008. * ''Street Cops 1978–1981'', Higher Pictures, New York City, September–October 2011. * ''Street Cops'', The President's Gallery,
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,
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, September–October 2012 * ''Circus Days 1971'', Higher Pictures, New York City, January–March 2013. * ''Long Stories Short'', Steven Kasher Gallery, New York City, September–October 2015. For the most part, previously unpublished examples of Freedman's earlier work. *''Resurrection City, 1968'', Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, 2017 * ''Street Cops 1978–1981'', Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, September–October 2021. * ''Firehouse: The Photography of Jill Freedman'',
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, 2022 – April 2023.


Group exhibitions

* ''Circus: The real people'', Neikrug Galleries, New York City, May 1972. With Charles Reynolds. * Soho Photo, New York City, 1972. With Harvey Stein and Mike Levins. *''Rated X'', Neikrug Galleries, New York City, June 1972. * Third Eye Gallery, New York City, March 1976. Black and white photographs of New York; with Helen Buttfield,
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, Ruth Orkin, and others. * ''Street Kids'',
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, New York City, 1978. With Lewis W. Hine,
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,
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,
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, Bruce Davidson and Ken Heyman * ''Manhattan Portraits'',
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, New York City, September 1984. With Laurence Fink, George Malave, Toby Old, Sy Rubin, Ed Fausty and Brian Rose. * ''The Animal in Photography, 1843–1985'', The Photographers' Gallery, London, June–September 1986. * ''Mothers and Daughters'', Burden Gallery, May 1987. With Bruce Davidson,
Joel Meyerowitz Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, 1938) is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the ide ...
, Niki Berg,
Danny Lyon Danny Lyon (born March 16, 1942) is an American photographer and filmmaker. All of Lyon's publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism, meaning that the photographer has become immersed in, and is a participant of, the document ...
, Kathleen Kenyon and
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. * ''2 Photographers – 5 Decades'', PhotoGraphic Gallery, New York City, June–August 2006. With Arthur Lavine. * ''Ireland'', PhotoGraphic Gallery, New York City, January–February 2007. With Christy McNamara. * ''Circus days'', within ''Bêtes et hommes = Beasts and Men'', Grande halle de la Villette, Paris, September 2007 – January 2008. *''Gertrude's/LOT'', Pittsburgh Biennial,
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, Pittsburgh, December 2011 – January 2012. * ''Seriously'', Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York City, November 2016 – January 2017.


Collections

Freedman's work is held in the following permanent collections: *
International Center of Photography The International Center of Photography (ICP) is a photography museum and school at 84 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. ICP's photographic collection, reading room, and archives are at Mana Contemporary in Jer ...
, New York City: 51 prints * The Ringling, Sarasota, FL: 49 prints *
Bibliothèque nationale de France The (; BnF) is the national library of France, located in Paris on two main sites, ''Richelieu'' and ''François-Mitterrand''. It is the national repository of all that is published in France. Some of its extensive collections, including bo ...
, Paris: 21 prints *
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, Stockholm: 6 prints *
Center for Creative Photography The Center for Creative Photography (CCP), established in 1975 and located on the University of Arizona's Tucson campus, is a research facility and archival repository containing the full archives of over sixty of the most famous American ph ...
, Tucson, AZ: 6 prints "from the W. Eugene Smith Collection"


Publications

* * * * * * * With text by
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and
Malachy McCourt Malachy Gerard McCourt (September 20, 1931 – March 11, 2024) was an American-Irish actor, writer and politician. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Limerick, McCourt appeared in several films and soap operas, including ''The Molly Maguires'', ' ...
. * "Gold edition" of 30 copies (each with a print); 2nd printing of 100. * With essays by John Edwin Mason and Aaron Bryant. *


Notes


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