Jill Freedman profile

[jim_a]

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BACK in the 1970s, a gutsy blonde named Jill Freedman armed with a battered

Leica M4 and an eye for the offbeat trained her lens on the spirited characters

and gritty sidewalks of a now-extinct city.

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Influenced by the Modernist documentarian Andr頋ert鳺, with references to the

hard-edged, black-and-white works of Weegee and Diane Arbus, this self-taught

photographer captured raw and intimate images, and transformed urban scenes into

theatrical dramas.

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<p>Full article:

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href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/nyregion/thecity/27jill.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/nyregion/thecity/27jill.html</a>

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[john_gleason1]

"BACK in the 1970s, a gutsy blonde named Jill Freedman armed with a battered Leica M4 and an eye for the offbeat trained her lens on the spirited characters and gritty sidewalks of a now-extinct city.

 

Influenced by the Modernist documentarian Andr?ert?, with references to the hard-edged, black-and-white works of Weegee and Diane Arbus, this self-taught photographer captured raw and intimate images, and transformed urban scenes into theatrical dramas.

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Careful --- that's a direct quote from the NY Times article; it's good to mark it as such.

 

(And the link is already over on the News forum.)

[soeren_engelbrecht1]

I recently bought her "Ireland Ever" book with pictures from (mainly rural) Ireland. really nice work, I think - very classic B/W images from pubs and fields and such.

 

Soeren

[john_elder1]

Thanks!

[saintelmo21]

Jim A,

 

Thanks for posting this.

[sionnac]

Great article; I love her images. Was sad to hear about her troubles; hopefully now that she has resettled she will have time to start shooting again.

[derek_stanton2]

I love the "Jumping Rope" photograph.

Thanks for the link.

[stephen_jones4]

Enjoyable. Thanks for the link.