One 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 photographer captured segregation and racial inequality in the country during the mid-1960s, and the project was published as a photobook in 1968.
Specification
Format: Archival Pigment Print
Printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Baryta paper
Size: 11 x 14 in (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Please note, this Darkroom Print is hand stamped with a Magnum Stamp on the back. This will be hidden by the framing.
This print is for personal use only, intended for display in the home or other private spaces. For all other purposes, such as display in public spaces or institutions, publishing the image online or in print, or any other form of usage, permission must be granted by Magnum Photos.
Framing
Each frame is hand-crafted and made-to-order and includes framing-grade quality plexiglass, which comes with ~60% UV protection.
Please allow up to three additional weeks before your order is shipped when ordering a framed item.
Please note: due to the nature of the framing process the artist archival stamp that is on the recto of our Contact Sheet, Darkroom and Magnum Edition prints will be obscured upon framing.
Shipping
All of our prints are shipped flat and separately from other items in your order. Unframed posters are shipped within a sturdy tube.
If you order a framed print will ship carefully packed in bubble wrap and a sturdy box separately from other items in your order.
Please allow an extra three weeks for delivery for all framed items.