Leonard Freed’s photos from Harlem, Brooklyn and the historic 1963 March on Washington lay on a workroom table in the home he shared with his wife, Brigitte. She stood over the images — as she has over his reputation — with a slight smile of pride.
“All nice prints, right?” she said. “Some people don’t know how to print dark skin. They have faces and they have to be recognizable. You have to print the face. My faces were always recognizable.”
Her own face may not be familiar, but she was crucial to Mr. Freed’s career — even before he joined Magnum — as he made historic images of the civil rights era (as well as shot numerous magazine assignments in Europe and the United States). Those photos would not have been seen if not for her — and not in the sense of the long-suffering hausfrau who kept the home fires warm while hubby was a dashing, globe-trotting photojournalist.
She was his printer...
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