Magnum Editions: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Baltimore, USA, 1964 Framing:Custom White Frame ” explains David Hurn

” explains David Hurn

began to photograph him

This contact sheet contains images from Steele-Perkins visit to Honshu

creating work which won him the 1992 Mother Jones Award for Documentary Photography

Magnum Editions: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Baltimore, USA, 1964 Framing:Custom White Frame ” explains David HurnLeonard Freed was never interested in photographing celebrities; I was interested in people. Take the Martin Luther King Photo. He is an icon, people want to touch him, he is not a human being anymore, he is totally surrounded by the arms, he is protected. Look at the eyes. I was more interested in the people, in their hands, than I was in Martin Luther King himself. Freeds picture of Dr King shows him being greeted on his return to the U. S. after