Magnum Editions: Harlem, New York, 1963 Framing:Unframed Morath’s photographic images are documents

Morath’s photographic images are documents

he covered wars and revolutions in Biafra

I remember only William Klein filming

the superimposed head highlights what Erwitt calls the ‘visual contradictions that are a photographer’s dream’

Drawn to the girls

Magnum Editions: Harlem, New York, 1963 Framing:Unframed Morath’s photographic images are documentsIn 1962 Leonard Freed went to Berlin to shoot The Wall being erected. There he saw an African American soldier standing in front of it and the thought struck him; that at home in the US, African Americans were struggling for civil rights, and here in Germany an African American soldier was ready to defend the United States. This prompted a lengthy examination by Freed of the plight of the African Americans at home in the United States. Freed traveled