School Bus, New York by Leonard Freed, Black-and-White Documentary Photography 1950s Jewish Diaspora

The black-and-white photograph captures Jewish children, young boys of a yeshiva in the 1950s on a bus in New York City. Leonard Freed's photographic career led him to document many subjects from the period, including photographing the Jewish diaspora in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. Considered one of the important documentary photographers of the 20th Century, Freed was a master at photographic storytelling.This gelatin silver, 16" x 20", signed (verso) by the photographer, is School Bus, New York City, from 1954.Provenance: Freed Estate***Artist’s Bio:Leonard Freed (1929-2006) was an American photographer from Brooklyn, New York. His "Black in White America" series made him known as a documentarian, a social documentary photographer. Freed worked as a freelance photographer from 1961 onwards and as a Magnum photographer Freed traveled widely abroad and, in the US, photographing African Americans (1964-65), events in Israel (1967-68, 1973), and the New York City police departme