# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvmj8HiHf_W
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16448198-gettyimages-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/129034dfac.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-03-29T18:36:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

“Photography is magic. You can stop time itself…A photograph is a sharing, it says “Hey, look at this!”, it’s a miracle, is what it is.”
Documentary photographer Jill Freedman has been casting American life into miraculous silver across five decades, extending the eternity of the lens to the people and moments traditionally left out of time.
Discovering her parents’ old copies of LIFE as a child, Freedman was so profoundly affected by the photo-essays within that her concerned parents burned the magazines. 
That connection between photography, revelation and empathy was reawakened in the mid-1960s while out walking her poodle, Fang, on the streets of New York. The camera became a device where seeing and feeling combined; a collector of stories, it became a library.
When those stories became all-consuming with the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, Freedman quit her copywriter job and set up home in Resurrection City, the shantytown established by the Poor People’s Campaign on Washington Mall. Freedman documented the formative community of activists and the dispossessed in an exploratory but warm, receptive style.
That instinctive self-assignment and immersion became a signature throughout her fiercely independent career. Shooting a touring circus - “If I wanted to do freaks, I’d do guys wearing ties in 100-degree weather” - Freedman lived in a Volkswagen Bus, while she slept on the floor of the station or in the chief’s car during a two year firefighters project in Harlem and the Bronx.
Producing several photobooks, the authoritative format pushed the marginalised or overlooked individuals and communities Freedman photographed into the light – “hey, look at this”.
With an eye for a succinct gesture, the pictures first appear like visual punchlines but then unwrap into deeply involved narratives. Gritty, absurd, euphoric, they are marks left behind of the striving and colliding of life.
For more, follow jillfreedmanphoto and tap onto our bio link for a gallery from the gettyarchive editors.
📷: Jill Freedman/Getty Images 
#womenshistorymonth #jillfreedman #womeninphotography #documentaryphotography #gettyarchive

## Stats

- **Views:** 0
- **Likes:** 14,962
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 45

## Tags

documentaryphotography, womeninphotography, womenshistorymonth, jillfreedman, gettyarchive

---
Copyright (c) Gondola