16.2 x 23.2 (Image/sheet) (centimeters, height x width)
Description:
Looking across a room toward an open door with a woman sitting in front of it. The woman, dressed in dark clothes, is sitting in a wooden chair, and leaning forward toward the door to cut open a wheel of cheese. All the light in the room is sunlight coming in from the door. On the floor in the center of the room are at least 30 large, cylindrical wheels of cheese; their tops are slightly sunken in the middle and they have a woven, basket-like texture to them. The room itself has a floral curtain hanging to the right of the door, and a square tile hung at an angle in the upper left corner of the image but is otherwise undecorated.
Notes:
Verso has rough title and dates.
Cite As:
Leonard Freed (American, 1929–2006), A family's cheese production fro sale in their village, Castelbuono, Sicily, Italy, 1974. Gelatin silver print, 6 3/8 x 9 1/8 in. (16.2 x 23.2 cm). Gift of Claudia Schwartz, Class of 1983, and Steven L. Schwartz, Class of 1981, 2017.049.011.
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