A police officer at his post during the filming of a movie. There is a growing “police cult”; aficionados wear the odds and ends of uniforms, swagger along the street with handcuffs, keys and whistles dangling from their belts. / Leonard Freed

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Accession Number: 2014/2.338
Title: A police officer at his post during the filming of a movie. There is a growing “police cult”; aficionados wear the odds and ends of uniforms, swagger along the street with handcuffs, keys and whistles dangling from their belts.
Artist: Leonard Freed
Medium and Support: vintage gelatin silver print on paper
Object Creation Date: 1976
Credit Line: Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
Inscription: signed in pencil, verso; stamped, verso
Dimensions: 20.32 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.)
Physical Description: An actual police officer looking at the camera and an actor playing a police officer walking behind him.
Primary Keywords: actors; officers; street
Secondary Keywords: buildings and the land; open spaces; open spaces and site elements; open spaces by function; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by occupation; people in military occupations; people in the arts; people in the arts and related occupations; people in the humanities; people in the performing arts; performing artists; roads; roads by form; transportation spaces
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 4434 x 2936
File Size: 285 KB
Record: 2014/2.338
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2014-sl-2.338/2014_2.338.jpg

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Full citation: "A police officer at his post during the filming of a movie. There is a growing “police cult”; aficionados wear the odds and ends of uniforms, swagger along the street with handcuffs, keys and whistles dangling from their belts.; Leonard Freed." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2014-sl-2.338/2014_2.338.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.