Police Work (Signed)

Leonard Freed,Police Work (Signed)

Leonard Freed
Police Work (Signed)

Photographs: Leonard Freed

Text: Studs Terkel

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

125 pages

Pictures: 124

Year: 1980

Comments: Softcover. 275 x 215 mm. Black & White photographs. Copy signed by Leonard Freed. Scarpe in good condition.

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Police Work is an eloquent, positive, grittily realistic portrait of the life of big-city policemen.Through 124 black-and-white photographs, Leonard Freed has captured all the power, irony, compassion, violence, rewards and revulsions of police work. Freed spent many months with policemen on their beats, watching ; taking photographs ; building a story about the police that shows the isolation, the complexity, the camaraderie, the many dimensions of their work and what it takes to be a "good cop" - intelligence, nerve, understanding, the ability to make lightning decisions of life-and-death proportions. Short, understated captions accompany some of the photographs, but the story is in the images : neighborhood life ; stalking suspects ; runaways ; hustlers ; derelicts ; demonstrators ; drug busts ; prison ; kids...

Moving, devastating, sharp, tragic, at times almost overwhelming, here is an unparalleled view of police and work and life.


Leonard Freed,Police Work (Signed)

Leonard Freed,Police Work (Signed)

Leonard Freed,Police Work (Signed)

Leonard Freed,Police Work (Signed)

Leonard Freed,Police Work (Signed)

Leonard Freed,Police Work (Signed)

Leonard Freed,Police Work (Signed)

Leonard Freed,Police Work (Signed)

Leonard Freed,Police Work (Signed)

Leonard Freed,Police Work (Signed)

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