Jill Freedman in NYT

[David Goldfarb]

Good piece in the New York Times today on NYC street photographer, Jill Freedman, most active during the late 1960s through the early 1980s--

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/nyregion/thecity/27jill.html?ref=thecity

You might also notice a feature on a more famous photographer in the travel section, but he wasn't so much of an RF guy.

 

[Alex Kinnan]

Thanks for the tip. Good article, great photographs.

 

[bmattock]

Yeah, good one, thanks!

 

[morgan]

Great article, but it made me a little sad actually. Between her situation (reminded me a bit of Bob Richardson) and mallification of NYC, it kind of got to me. But if the new New York can pay her back and help prop her up, then there's some good left there yet. The idea of her life's work sitting in a storage locker in Bushwick is frightening.

 

[imajypsee]

I'm so moved by this story

I'm so moved by this story

probably because the photographer is a woman and has had some experiences that resonate for me. But, also because she did something I wish I could have done. My kids and my home kept me from being a vagabond photographer, but I also haven't had to experience a time in my life, save for a very short period, when I had no health care/health insurance.
Ms. Freedman is also near my age and the rate at which the ability to move about in the "street," and so on, diminishes must seem very pressing to her.

Mary in Florida, USA

 

[jmcd]

Thanks for the link. I have her book called Jill's Dogs—long a favorite of mine.

 

[Chuck Albertson]

Also worth picking up is her "Ireland Ever," documentation of life in rural Ireland that is beginning to disappear.