Leonard Freed Wall Street, New York City, USA. 1956.
“This was an early photo that Leonard took while walking around New York City. He had been to Staten Island to photograph, and coming out of the subway he n
(...) oticed the composition before him and took a photograph. He only took this one picture at that moment. He hadn’t regarded it as special at the time, so didn’t print it. A few years later, while looking through some contact sheets, I saw it and suggested we make some prints of the image — I did most of his printing at that time. And now it’s one of Leonard’s iconic photographs. Henri Cartier-Bresson chose this image as one of his 100 most important (or interesting) images.”
– Brigitte Freed © Leonard Freed | Magnum Photos
