Leonard Freed: This Is the Day
The March on Washington, 1963
‘This Is the Day: The March on Washington’ was published by Getty Publications to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the march. Magnum photographer Leonard Freed (1929-2006) traveled to Washington that day and photographed the event that culminated in Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech.
‘Black in White America,’ an exhibition of Freed’s work, is on now through February 22nd, 2014, at the Leica Gallery in Soho, New York.
!["[Freed] allows the images to steep in the crucible of American race. One can almost catch the subliminal suggestion: This is what it should always be like. The photograph of blacks and whites linking arms in the culminating rendition of "We Shall Overcome" is sweet 'I sing' in the cake of unity." Michael Eric Dyson.](https://i0.wp.com/acurator.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Leonard-Freed-Washington-aCurator-17.jpg?fit=529%2C350&strip=none&ssl=1 "From the series: Leonard Freed: This Is the Day")
