Darkroom Print: Harlem, New York, USA, 1963 Framing:Custom Black Frame cooling off from the heat

cooling off from the heat with an open fire hydrant

Freed was in the early stages of what would become the landmark photo project

Traveling to New York

Black in White America

wore coils around their necks from an early age to lengthen them

Darkroom Print: Harlem, New York, USA, 1963 Framing:Custom Black Frame cooling off from the heatOne hot summer afternoon in 1963, Leonard Freed was wandering around Harlem when he captured this photograph of two young residents, in sheer delight, cooling off from the heat with an open fire hydrant, which had become a lifeline during heatwaves in the city. At the time, Freed was in the early stages of what would become the landmark photo project, Black in White America. Traveling to New York, Washington, D. C. and all across the south, the