Jill Freedman#Exhibitions

Freedman was born in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh to a traveling salesman and a nurse. As an adult Freedman photographed extensively in Ireland, quipping "I'm Jewish, but I adopted Ireland as my own old country".{{cite news|last1=Koppel|first1=Niko|title=Through Weegee's lens|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/nyregion/thecity/27jill.html| id={{ProQuest|433819223}} | work=The New York Times|date=April 27, 2008}}{{cite web|last1=Cuénin|first1=Jonas|title=Portrait of Jill Freedman: Street jazz|url=http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2015/09/29/article/159871676/portrait-of-jill-freedman-street-jazz/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307044728/http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2015/09/29/article/159871676/portrait-of-jill-freedman-street-jazz/ | archive-date=March 7, 2017 | website=L'Œil de la Photographie | date=September 29, 2015 | access-date=May 14, 2023}}{{Cite web| url=https://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/25745/close-up-remembering-jill-freedman.html | first=Maureen | last=Cavanagh | date=October 16, 2019 | website=American Photography's Pro-photo Daily | title=Close-up: Remembering Jill Freedman | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191123082955/https://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/25745/close-up-remembering-jill-freedman.html | archive-date=November 23, 2019 | access-date=May 14, 2023}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.guernicamag.com/incendiary-photography-jill-freedman | first=Roslyn | last=Bernstein | date=December 6, 2017 | website=Guernica | title=The incendiary photography of Jill Freedman | access-date=May 15, 2023}} In 1961,{{cite news|last1=Emblen|first1=Frank|title=New Jersey Guide; Photo show at Drew|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/02/nyregion/new-jersey-guide-photo-show-at-drew.html| id={{ProQuest|424360368}} | work=The New York Times|date=May 2, 1982}} Freedman graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a major in sociology.{{cite news|last1=Johnston|first1=Laurie|title=Photography beckoned, and now it's the light of her life | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/04/archives/photography-beckoned-and-now-its-the-light-of-her-life.html| id={{ProQuest|123399870}} | work=The New York Times|date=September 4, 1977}} In 1964 Freedman came to New York City and had several temporary jobs including advertising copywriter. She only discovered photography while experimenting with a friend's camera.

After college, Freedman went to Israel, where she worked on a Kibbutz.{{cite news|last1=Bryant|first1=Austin|title='I love to see men cry': Interview with Jill Freedman, street photographer of the '70s and '80s|url=https://jezebel.com/i-love-to-see-men-cry-interview-with-jill-freedman-st-1775626311|work=Jezebel|date=May 16, 2016|access-date=May 14, 2023|archive-date=January 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107073043/https://jezebel.com/i-love-to-see-men-cry-interview-with-jill-freedman-st-1775626311|url-status=dead}} She ran out of money and sang to make a living; she continued singing in Paris and on a television variety show in London.{{cite news|last1=Estrin|first1=James|title=Cops, clowns and cameras|url=https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/13/cops-clowns-and-cameras/ | work=The New York Times | date=January 13, 2014}}

Freedman arrived in New York City in 1964, and worked in advertising and as a copywriter. As a photographer, she was self-taught, influenced by André Kertész, idolizing W. Eugene Smith, but primarily helped by her poodle Fang:

When I was out walking in the street with Fang I saw everything, felt everything. He had a great instinct. He taught me how to look, because he never missed a thing.

Andy Grundberg would also note the influences on her style of Smith, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Don McCullin, Leonard Freed, and Weegee; but would add that: "To appreciate [her] photographs one needs to consider their substance, not their style. . . . Human relationships – especially the bonds of brotherhood – fascinate her."{{cite news|last1=Grundberg|first1=Andy|title=Jill Freedman: A photojournalist of passion and empathy | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/17/arts/photography-view-jill-freedman-a-photojournalist-of-passion-and-empathy.html?pagewanted=all | id={{ProQuest|121966704}} | work=The New York Times | date=January 17, 1982}}

On hearing of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Freedman quit her job and went to Washington, DC.{{cite news | last1=Qureshi | first1=Bilal | title=Capturing the Poor People's Campaign | url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91731755 | work=National Public Radio | date=June 21, 2008 | access-date=May 14, 2023 | language=en}} She lived in Resurrection City, a shantytown put up by the Poor People's Campaign on Washington Mall in 1968, and photographed there. Photographs from the series were published at the time in Life, and collected in Freedman's first book, Old News: Resurrection City, in 1970. A. D. Coleman wrote of the book:

It is a very personal yet highly objective statement, filled with passion, warmth, sorrow and humor. Freedman's pictures are deft and strong; her text witty, sardonic and honest, with quirky insights and touching moments of self-revelation. A brave and moving book.{{cite news|last1=Coleman|first1=A. D.|title=Photography: Children, poverty and black women | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/01/17/archives/children-poverty-and-black-women.html | id={{ProQuest|119244588}} | work=The New York Times|date=17 January 1971}}

Freedman then lived in a Volkswagen kombi, following the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus. For two months, she photographed "two shows a day and one show each Sunday. Seven weeks of one night stands", and moving across New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania and Ohio.{{cite web|last1=Bourus|first1=Kim|title=Jill Freedman; Exhibition: Circus Days 1971|url=http://higherpictures.com/press/jill-freedman-3/|website=Higher Pictures|date=January 31, 2013 | access-date=May 14, 2023}} She wanted to photograph the performers as people. ("If I wanted to do freaks, I'd do guys wearing ties in 100-degree weather – to me that's freaks."{{efn-lr|A temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit, or 38 degrees Celsius.}}) Coleman wrote:

[The photographs expose] both the photographer's own responses to people and the personalities of her subjects. The moments she selects are significant emotionally as well as graphically. Her images exclude the extraneous in an inconspicuous way, and her sense of timing and gesture . . . is uncanny.{{cite news|last1=Coleman|first1=A. D.|title=Who will be the replacements? | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/07/archives/who-will-be-the-replacements.html | id={{ProQuest|119591067}} | work=The New York Times|date=7 May 1972}}

The work was published as a book, Circus Days, in 1975.

Freedman photographed the then sleazy area of 42nd Street{{cite news|last1=Baker|first1=R.C.|title=Where the mechanical things are |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2007/04/24/where-the-mechanical-things-are/|work=Village Voice|date=April 24, 2007 | access-date=May 14, 2023}} and the arts scene in Studio 54 and SoHo.

In 1975, Freedman started to photograph firefighters around Harlem and the Bronx. This took her two years; she lived with the firefighters, sleeping in the chief's car and on the floor. This resulted in a book, Firehouse, published in 1977 – according to one review, a book "flawed . . . by poor reproduction and inept layout".{{cite magazine | last1=Goldsmith | first1=Arthur | title=Jill Freedman: Street Cops | magazine=Popular Photography|date=March 1982|pages=98, 121|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LCyqyh2vkkIC&pg=PA98|via=Google Books}}

Some of the firefighters had previously been policemen, and they suggested that Freedman might photograph police work. Freedman had disliked the police but reasoned that there must be good policemen among them.{{cite news|last1=Goh|first1=Melisa|title=Stories of a fearless street photographer|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/01/world/cnnphotos-jill-freedman/ | work=CNN | date=September 1, 2015 | access-date=May 14, 2023}} For her series Street Cops (1978–1981), she accompanied the police to an area of New York City including Alphabet City and Times Square,{{cite web|last1=Bourus|first1=Kim|title=Jill Freedman; Exhibition: Street Cops 1978–1981|url=http://higherpictures.com/press/jill-freedman-2/|website=Higher Pictures|date=September 15, 2011 | access-date=May 14, 2023}} spending time with those who seemed good cops. The work resulted in the book Street Cops. A contemporary reviewer for Popular Photography started by observing that "the passionate photojournalistic essay of yesterday" was "an endangered species", before saying that it lived on in photobooks such as this one. The reviewer described Street Cops as "[celebrating] the heroism, compassion, and humor of New York police professionals", and saying that the book "is traditional and satisfying in that it accomplishes a blend rarely successful – or even attempted – these days: an organic fusion of words and photographs".

On photographing in New York at the time:

Hiding behind a camera, [Freedman] found her subjects where others were not looking – "beggars, panhandlers, people sleeping on the street," the police and the firefighters, the people washed ashore by forces bigger than themselves. "It's the theater of the streets," she said. "The weirder, the better."{{cite news|last1=Leland|first1=John|title='The weirder, the better' | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/nyregion/for-a-street-photographer-the-weirder-the-better.html | id={{ProQuest|2074289128}} | work=The New York Times|date=17 September 2015}}

During the seventies, Freedman was briefly associated with Magnum Photos, but did not become a member.{{cite web|last1=Cuénin|first1=Jonas|title=New York: Long Stories Short by Jill Freedman at the Steven Kasher Gallery | url=http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2015/09/29/article/159871710/new-york-long-stories-short-by-jill-freedman-at-the-steven-kasher-gallery/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306211205/http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2015/09/29/article/159871710/new-york-long-stories-short-by-jill-freedman-at-the-steven-kasher-gallery/ | archive-date=March 6, 2017 | website=L'Œil de la Photographie|date=September 29, 2015}} She wanted to tell stories via photography, but also wanted to avoid the schmoozing required to get commissions; and she therefore set her own tasks. She had difficulty making a living, but sold prints from a stand set up outside the Whitney Museum building. In 1983, New York Times critic Andy Grunberg recognized her black and white street photography in New York, grouping Freedman with Lee Friedlander, Fred R. Conrad, Bruce Davidson, Roy DeCarava, Bill Cunningham, Sara Krulwich and Rudy Burckhardt.{{cite news|last1=Grundberg|first1=Andy|title=New York in black and white|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/09/arts/new-york-in-black-and-white.html| id={{ProQuest|122151010}} | work=The New York Times|date=December 9, 1983}}

In 1988, Freedman discovered that she was ill. The medical expenses meant that she had to leave her apartment above the Sullivan Street Playhouse;{{efn-lr|The Sullivan Street Playhouse occupied 181 Sullivan Street from 1958 to 2002. {{cite news|last1=Durniak|first1=Drew|title=Sullivan Street Playhouse: Gone but not forgotten|url=https://gvshp.org/blog/2012/01/13/sullivan-street-playhouse-gone-but-not-forgotten/|work=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation|date=January 13, 2012}}}} in 1991, she moved to Miami Beach; she was dissatisfied there but was able to read a lot. She sometimes worked for the Miami Herald.{{cite news|title=MSPF 2016 featured artist: Jill Freedman|url=https://www.miamistreetphotographyfestival.org/jill-freedman|work=Miami Street Photography Festival|date=2016|language=en|access-date=October 11, 2019|archive-date=October 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191010141852/https://www.miamistreetphotographyfestival.org/jill-freedman|url-status=dead}} She also managed to publish a photobook of dogs that was praised for "[defying] the clichéd images" of dog photography.{{cite news|last1=Johnson|first1=Adrienne M.| title=Hair of the dog|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-07-03-ls-11264-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|date=July 3, 1994 | id={{ProQuest|282338155}}}} She also published the second of two photobooks of Ireland, one that Publishers Weekly said "lovingly captures the enduring aspects of Irish tradition".{{cite news|title=Nonfiction book review: Ireland Ever: The photographs of Jill Freedman|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8109-4340-7|work=Publishers Weekly|date=October 1, 2004 | access-date=May 15, 2023}}

Around 2003,{{efn-lr|"Five years ago", says a newspaper article published on April 27, 2008; therefore presumably in 2002 or 2003.}} Freedman moved back to New York. She was shocked and saddened by its sanitization during her absence:{{cite news|last1=Maurer|first1=Daniel|title=Read Jill Freedman's epic rant about photography and the 'mechanized mindlessness' of today's NYC | url=https://bedfordandbowery.com/2013/12/read-jill-freedmans-epic-rant-about-photography-and-the-mechanized-mindlessness-of-todays-nyc/|work=Bedford + Bowery|date=December 17, 2013 | access-date=May 15, 2023}} "When I saw that they had turned 42nd Street into Disneyland, . . . I just stood there and wept." She moved to a place near Morningside Park in 2007, and was still living there in 2015.

During the earlier part of her career, Freedman was captivated by the photographic printing process. She shot Kodak Tri-X and liked to use a 35 mm lens and available light, and to print on Agfa Portriga Rapid paper. As of late 2016, she neither had a darkroom nor missed having one: she emphasized that the camera, whether film or digital, was merely a tool.{{cite magazine|last1=Neubart|first1=Jack|title=Photographer profiles: What's black and white and read all over? The documentary photography of Jill Freedman|url=https://www.shutterbug.com/content/pros-choice-what%E2%80%99s-black-and-white-and-read-all-over-documentary-photography-jill-freedman| magazine=Shutterbug| date=October 18, 2016 | access-date=May 15, 2023}} When asked on another occasion, she approvingly cited Elliott Erwitt on not being boring and attempting to do excellent work; technical questions and even posterity should not be a concern.

Freedman was one of 13 photographers shown photographing New York in Everybody Street, a 2013 film by Cheryl Dunn.{{cite web|title=Everybody Street – Cast|url=http://everybodystreet.com/cast|website=Everybody Street|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303215345/http://everybodystreet.com/cast|archive-date=March 3, 2016|year=2013 | access-date=May 15, 2023}}{{cite magazine|last1=Nelson|first1=Karin|title=Everybody Street|url=https://www.wmagazine.com/story/everybody-street-photographer-documentary|magazine=W Magazine|date=November 12, 2013|language=en | access-date=May 15, 2023}}{{cite news|last1=Leland|first1=John|title=Around any corner, moments that endure | url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/11/03/nyregion/album-street-photographers.html | id={{ProQuest|1815041128}} | work=The New York Times|date=November 1, 2013|language=en}} Together with Richard Kalvar, Alex Webb, Rebecca Norris Webb, Maggie Steber and Matt Stuart, she was a featured guest in the Miami Street Photography Festival 2016 at HistoryMiami Museum during Art Basel week.{{cite web|title=Miami Street Photography Festival 2016|url=http://www.historymiami.org/event/miami-street-photography-festival-2016/|website=HistoryMiami Museum|date=December 2016 | access-date=May 15, 2023}}

Grundberg wrote in 1982 that "Indignation over injustice is the major key in [Freedman's] work, admiration for life's survivors the minor key." Maggie Steber has said of Freedman:

I think she's been thoroughly under-recognized. . . . To me, Jill is one of the great American photographers. Always has been and always will be.

In 2016, Freedman's work and career,{{cite web|last1=Cuénin|first1=Jonas|title=Jill Freedman: For life| url=https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/jill-freedman-for-life/|work=L'Œil de la Photographie| date=May 21, 2015}}{{Subscription required|date=May 2023}} especially her images of New York City, was the subject of renewed interest, appearing in multiple Vice articles,{{cite news|title=An intimate look at the nightly routine of Miami strippers|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/iconic-street-photographer-jill-freedmans-photographs-of-miami-strippers/|work=Vice|date=July 24, 2016| access-date=May 15, 2023 | language=en}} including their 2016 photography issue{{cite news|last1=Freedman|first1=Jill|title=Men through the lens of a legendary female street photographer|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-female-street-photographers-chronicle-of-decades-of-new-york-boys-clubs-jill-freedman-v23n5/|work=Vice|date=August 22, 2016|language=en | access-date=May 15, 2023}} and at Art Basel Miami.{{cite news|last1=Freedman|first1=Jill|title=Stunning photos of Miami as it used to be|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/jill-freedman-photos-miami/|work=Vice|date=November 30, 2016|language=en | access-date=May 15, 2023}}

In her later life, Freedman lived in Harlem.

On October 9, 2019, Freedman died from complications of cancer at a care facility in Manhattan.

• 1973: National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship{{Cite book | author1=National Endowment for the Arts | author2=National Council on the Arts | title=Annual Report: Fiscal Year 1973 | location=Washington, D.C. | publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |year=1974 | url=https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA-Annual-Report-1973.pdf | page=101}}{{Cite book | title=A Creative Legacy: A History of the National Endowment of the Arts Visual Artists' Fellowship Program, 1966–1995 | editor-first=Adele | editor-last=Westbrook | publisher=Harry N. Abrams | location=New York| isbn=0-8109-4170-8 | year=2001 | page=218 | url=https://archive.org/details/creativelegacyhi2001prin | via=Internet Archive}}
• 1974: New York State Council on the Arts, Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS) Photography Grant{{cite news|last1=Coleman|first1=A. D.|title=Quality and quantity are improving | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/02/archives/quality-and-quantity-are-improvingg-on-the-west-coast-photography.html | id={{ProQuest|120158001}} | work=The New York Times|date=June 2, 1974}}
• 1982: Leica Medal of Excellence (first recipient, with Jill Krementz and Mary Ellen Mark){{cite web | title=Interview with Benedict J. Fernandez | website=The Eye of Photography | date=May 7, 2014 | url=https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/interview-with-benedict-j-fernandez-the-60-s-decade-of-change/ | access-date=May 24, 2023}}
• 1994: Alicia Patterson Foundation, Fellowship for The Holocaust, 50 Years Later{{cite web|title=Jill Freedman. Fellowship title: The Holocaust, 50 Years Later|url=https://aliciapatterson.org/users/jill-freedman| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101118051552/https://aliciapatterson.org/users/jill-freedman | archive-date=November 18, 2010 | website=Alicia Patterson Foundation| access-date=May 15, 2023}}{{efn-lr|For the award-winning work, see Jill Freedman's group of series: "[https://web.archive.org/web/20220209190405/https://aliciapatterson.org/stories/survivors Survivors]", "[https://web.archive.org/web/20220209190407/https://aliciapatterson.org/stories/reproachful-voices-dead The Reproachful Voices of the Dead]", "[https://web.archive.org/web/20220209190354/https://aliciapatterson.org/stories/judenrein Judenrein]", "[https://web.archive.org/web/20220107073424/https://aliciapatterson.org/stories/traces-past Traces of the Past]" at the Alicia Patterson Foundation.}}
• 2001: Royal Photographic Society, Honorary Fellowship{{cite web|title=Honorary Fellowships (HonFRPS)|url=http://www.rps.org/about/awards/history-and-recipients/honorary-fellowships|website=Royal Photographic Society|date=2001|access-date=March 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170127135803/http://www.rps.org/about/awards/history-and-recipients/honorary-fellowships|archive-date=January 27, 2017|url-status=dead}}

• Jill Freedman: Pictures from New York, The Photographers' Gallery, London, March 1974.{{Cite web | url=http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/images/Archive_ExhList_553915bb54c21.pdf | title=Exhibition history, 1971 – present | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314224349/http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/images/Archive_ExhList_553915bb54c21.pdf | archive-date=March 14, 2016 | website=The Photographers' Gallery | year=2015 | access-date=May 19, 2023}}{{Rp|page=11}}
• The Circus and Other Scenes, The Photographers' Gallery, London, June 1974.{{Rp|page=12}}
• Jill Freedman, The Photographers' Gallery, London, June 1976.{{Cite web | url=http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/the-photographers-gallery-exhibitions-1971-2013 | title=Exhibitions at The Photographers' Gallery 1971–Present | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603051319/http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/the-photographers-gallery-exhibitions-1971-2013 | archive-date=June 3, 2016 | website=The Photographers' Gallery | date=February 13, 2013 | access-date=May 19, 2023 | format=doc}}
• PhotoGraph Gallery, New York, January 1982.
• University Center Gallery, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, May 1982.
• Street Cops: Jill Freedman, The Photographers' Gallery, London, September–October 1982.{{Rp|page=42}}
• Jill Freedman Photographs, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, December 1984 – January 1985.{{Cite web | url=http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/1980/4/jill-freedman-photographs.php | title=Jill Freedman photographs | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628211139/http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/1980/4/jill-freedman-photographs.php | archive-date=June 28, 2017 | website=Museum of Contemporary Photography | access-date=May 19, 2023}}
• Street Cops, Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo, 1985.{{Cite book | title=Ina Nobuo Shō 20-nen: Nikon Saron ni miru gendai shashin no keifu | script-title=ja:伊奈信男賞20年 ニコンサロンにみる現代写真の系譜 | trans-title=Twenty years of the Ina Nobuo Award: Lineage of contemporary photography seen at the Nikon Salon | series=Nikon Salon Books 23 | location=Tokyo | publisher=Nikkor Club | year=1996 | page=153}} This book (which is in Japanese only) also has an alternative title in Roman letters: Ina Nobuo Award '76–'95. It doesn't specify the period within 1985, but suggests that it was late in the year.
• Jill Freedman: 60's to the present, Witkin Gallery, New York City, December 1996 – January 1997.{{Cite news | first=Roberta | last=Smith | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/13/arts/the-world-through-women-s-lenses.html | id={{ProQuest|430713549}} | title=The world through women's lenses | work=The New York Times | date= December 13, 1996 | access-date=March 6, 2017}}
• Laughter and Love: A Romp through Ireland, M. J. Ellenbogen Photography, White Plains, NY, March 2006.{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/nyregion/calendar-787426.html | id={{ProQuest|433272611}} | title=Calendar | work=The New York Times | date=February 26, 2006 | access-date=March 6, 2017}}
• Here and There, A.M. Richard Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York, April–May 2007. Paired with an exhibition, Photographs of 42nd Street, by Andrew Garn.{{cite web | url=http://www.amrichardfineart.com/freedman_hereandthere.php | title=Jill Freedman: Here and there | website=A.M. Richard Fine Art | date=March 4, 2007 | access-date=May 19, 2023}}{{cite web | url=http://www.amrichardfineart.com/artists_garn.php | title=Andrew Garn: Photographs of 42nd Street | website=A.M. Richard Fine Art | date=March 4, 2007 | access-date=May 19, 2023}}
• Resurrection City 1968, Higher Pictures, New York City, April–May 2008.{{Cite web | url=http://higherpictures.com/exhibitions/jill-freedman/ | title=Jill Freedman: Resurrection City, 1968 | website=Higher Pictures | year=2008 | access-date=May 19, 2023}}{{Cite news | first=Niko | last=Koppel | url=https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/a-photographer-and-her-subject-reunited-decades-later | id={{ProQuest|2222020104}} | title=A photographer and her subject, reunited decades later | work=The New York Times | date=May 8, 2008 | access-date=March 5, 2017}} (The author is named at the New York Times website, although not at ProQuest.)
• Street Cops 1978–1981, Higher Pictures, New York City, September–October 2011.{{cite web | url=http://higherpictures.com/exhibitions/jill-freedman-2/ | title=Jill Freedman: Street Cops 1978–1981 | website=Higher Pictures | year=2011 | access-date=May 19, 2023}}{{Cite magazine | url=http://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/jill-freedman | title=Jill Freedman | magazine=The New Yorker | access-date=May 23, 2023}}
• Street Cops, The President's Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, September–October 2012{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}
• Circus Days 1971, Higher Pictures, New York City, January–March 2013.{{Cite web | first=Jonas | last=Cuénin | url=http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2013/02/21/article/20328/jill-freedman-circus-days/ | title=Jill Freedman: Circus Days | website=L'Œil de la Photographie | date=February 21, 2013 | access-date=May 15, 2023}}{{Cite web | first=Alison | last=Meier | url=http://www.salon.com/2013/02/17/seedy_side_of_the_circus_partner/ | title=Seedy side of the circus | website=Salon | date=February 18, 2013 | access-date=March 8, 2017}}
• Long Stories Short, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York City, September–October 2015. For the most part, previously unpublished examples of Freedman's earlier work.{{cite web | url=http://www.stevenkasher.com/exhibitions/jill-freedman-long-stories-short | title=Jill Freedman: Long Stories Short | website=Steven Kasher Gallery | year=2015 | access-date=May 20, 2023}}{{Cite news | first=Norman | last=Borden | url=https://www.amny.com/news/freedmans-photos-revel-in-vintage-new-york-2/ | title=Freedman's photos revel in vintage New York | work=AM New York Metro | date=October 13, 2015 | access-date=May 20, 2023}}
• Resurrection City, 1968, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, 2017{{cite magazine|first1=John Edwin|last1=Mason|access-date=June 2, 2018|title=How a photographer illuminated the plight of the 'invisible poor' |url=https://time.com/4968076/jill-freedman-resurrection-city-photos/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027183721/http://time.com/4968076/jill-freedman-resurrection-city-photos/|url-status=live|archive-date=October 27, 2017|magazine=Time}}
• Street Cops 1978–1981, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, September–October 2021.{{cite journal|first=Wendy| last=Vogel | title=Wendy Vogel on Jill Freedman | id={{ProQuest|2605262591}} | journal=Artforum International | volume=60 | issue=4 | date=December 2021}}{{cite web | title=Jill Freedman: Street Cops | website=Daniel Cooney Fine Art | url=https://www.danielcooneyfineart.com/exhibitions/jill-freedman | access-date=May 24, 2023 }}
• Firehouse: The Photography of Jill Freedman, New York City Fire Museum, 2022 – April 2023.{{Cite web | first=Steven | last=Shaw | title=Museum opens 'Firehouse: The Photography of Jill Freedman' exhibit | website=Firehouse | date=October 1, 2022 | url=https://www.firehouse.com/careers-education/article/21285189/museum-opens-firehouse-the-photography-of-jill-freedman-exhibit | publisher=Endeavor Business Media | access-date=May 24, 2023 | id={{ProQuest|2729296010}} }}

• Circus: The real people, Neikrug Galleries, New York City, May 1972. With Charles Reynolds.
• Soho Photo, New York City, 1972. With Harvey Stein and Mike Levins.{{Cite news | first=David L. | last=Shirey | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/18/archives/art-downtown-scene-bedrooms-and-3-photographers-work-make-an.html | id={{ProQuest|119402210}} | title=Art: Downtown scene: 'Bedrooms' and 3 photographers' work make an interesting show at Soho | work=The New York Times | date= March 18, 1972 | access-date=March 6, 2017}}
• Rated X, Neikrug Galleries, New York City, June 1972.{{Cite news | first=Gene | last=Thornton | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/11/archives/they-would-be-rated-x-if-they-were-movies.html | id={{ProQuest|119560388}} | title=They would be rated 'X' if they were movies | work=The New York Times | date=June 11, 1972 | access-date=March 6, 2017}} "The few successful pictures in this exhibition show nudity and sex as somehow existing here in the world with the rest of us. Jill Freedman treats it as a comic spectacle."
• Third Eye Gallery, New York City, March 1976. Black and white photographs of New York; with Helen Buttfield, André Kertész, Ruth Orkin, and others.{{Cite news | editor-first=Ann | editor-last=Barry | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/07/archives/arts-and-leisure-guide-theater-broadway.html | id={{ProQuest|122852279}} | title=Arts and leisure guide | work=The New York Times | date=March 7, 1976 | access-date=March 6, 2017}}
• Street Kids, New York Historical Society, New York City, 1978. With Lewis W. Hine, Jacob Riis, Ben Shahn, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bruce Davidson and Ken Heyman{{Cite news | first=Patricia | last=Wells | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/02/17/archives/new-photo-shows-full-of-surprises-the-new-photo-shows-are-full-of.html | id={{ProQuest|123820095}} | title=New photo shows full of surprises | work=The New York Times | date=February 17, 1978 | access-date=March 6, 2017}}
• Manhattan Portraits, Federal Hall National Memorial, New York City, September 1984. With Laurence Fink, George Malave, Toby Old, Sy Rubin, Ed Fausty and Brian Rose.{{Cite news | first=Richard F. | last=Shepard | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/27/arts/going-out-guide.html | id={{ProQuest|425175943}} | title=Going out guide | work=The New York Times | date=September 27, 1984 | access-date=March 6, 2017}}
• The Animal in Photography, 1843–1985, The Photographers' Gallery, London, June–September 1986.{{Rp|page=61}}
• Mothers and Daughters, Burden Gallery, May 1987. With Bruce Davidson, Joel Meyerowitz, Niki Berg, Danny Lyon, Kathleen Kenyon and Rosalind Solomon.{{Cite news | first=Patricia Leigh | last=Brown | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/04/style/images-mothers-and-daughters.html | id={{ProQuest|110775284}} | title=Images: Mothers and daughters | work=The New York Times | date=May 4, 1987 | access-date=March 6, 2017}}
• 2 Photographers – 5 Decades, PhotoGraphic Gallery, New York City, June–August 2006. With Arthur Lavine.{{Cite news | first=Steven | last=Snyder | url=http://www.downtownexpress.com/de-164/onenewyork.html | title=One New York, through two very different lenses | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307210546/http://www.downtownexpress.com/de-164/onenewyork.html | archive-date=March 7, 2017 | work=Downtown Express | date=June 30, 2006 | access-date=March 4, 2017}}{{Cite news | first=William | last=Meyers | title=Hitting the New York note | work=The New York Sun | url=https://www.nysun.com/article/arts-hitting-the-new-york-note | date=June 22, 2006}}{{Subscription required|date=May 2023}} "Again and again [Freedman] hits the New York note, that combination of paradox and pathos, of the tawdry and the supernally [sic] beautiful, that fills New Yorkers with pride and despair, and that all of us recognize as our own."
• Ireland, PhotoGraphic Gallery, New York City, January–February 2007. With Christy McNamara.{{cite web | url=http://photography-now.com/exhibition/46819 | title=Ireland | website=Photography Now | access-date=May 17, 2023}}
• Circus days, within Bêtes et hommes = Beasts and Men, Grande halle de la Villette, Paris, September 2007 – January 2008.{{Cite web | url=http://www.betesethommes.fr/images/PDF/bhcp_eng.pdf | title=Bêtes et Hommes | website=Bêtes et hommes | year=2007 | publisher=Parc de La Villette | access-date=May 17, 2023 | archive-date=January 27, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127105641/http://www.betesethommes.fr/images/PDF/bhcp_eng.pdf | url-status=dead }}
• Gertrude's/LOT, Pittsburgh Biennial, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, December 2011 – January 2012.{{Cite news | first=Mary | last=Thomas | url=http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2011/12/21/22-women-artists-deliver-provocative-show-at-The-Warhol/stories/201112210222 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306211346/http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2011/12/21/22-women-artists-deliver-provocative-show-at-The-Warhol/stories/201112210222 | archive-date=March 6, 2017 | title=22 women artists deliver provocative show at The Warhol | work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | date=December 21, 2011| access-date=May 19, 2023}}
• Seriously, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York City, November 2016 – January 2017.{{Cite web | first=Andrew | last=Edlin | url=http://www.edlingallery.com/exhibition_pr/seriously | title=Seriously | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104200055/http://www.edlingallery.com/exhibition_pr/seriously | archive-date=November 4, 2016 | date=October 31, 2016 | website=Andrew Edlin Gallery | access-date=May 15, 2023}}

Freedman's work is held in the following permanent collections:

• International Center of Photography, New York City: 51 prints{{Cite web | url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/jill-freedman?all/all/all/all/0 | title=Artist: Jill Freedman: (1939) American | website=International Center of Photography| date=April 4, 2018 | access-date=May 20, 2023}}
• The Ringling, Sarasota, FL: 49 prints{{Cite web | url=https://emuseum.ringling.org/search/Freedman | title=Search | website=The Ringling | access-date=May 20, 2023}}{{efn-lr|The catalog does not seem to distinguish among the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the Ringling Art Library, the Circus Museum, and perhaps other related institutions.}}
• Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris: 21 prints{{Cite web | url=http://catalogue.bnf.fr/recherche-avancee.do?pageRech=rav | title=BnF Catalogue général |website=Bibliothèque nationale de France | access-date=May 20, 2023}}
• Moderna Museet, Stockholm: 6 printsThe Moderna Museet's holdings are as found [http://sis.modernamuseet.se/en/search/advanced/Objects here] on March 3, 2017.
• Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ: 6 prints "from the W. Eugene Smith Collection"{{Cite web | url=http://www.creativephotography.org/files/cg-f.pdf | title=Photograph Collection: Center for Creative Photography: F | website=Center for Creative Photography | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203074425/http://www.creativephotography.org/files/cg-f.pdf | archive-date=February 3, 2013 | date=March 26, 2005 | access-date=May 20, 2023 | page=30}} (This says "See also: GROUP PORTFOLIOS: Ten Photographers, 1978".)

• {{cite book|last1=Freedman|first1=Jill|title=Old News: Resurrection City|year=1970|publisher=Grossman|location=New York|oclc=231853020}}
• {{cite book|last1=Freedman|first1=Jill|title=Circus Days|year=1975|publisher=Harmony|location=New York|isbn=978-0-517-52008-6|url-access=registration| via=Internet Archive | url=https://archive.org/details/circusdays0000free}}
• {{cite book|last1=Freedman|first1=Jill| authorlink2=Dennis Smith (firefighter)| first2=Dennis | last2=Smith | title=Firehouse|year=1977|publisher=Doubleday|location=New York|isbn=978-0-385-11585-8 | url=https://archive.org/details/firehouse0000free | url-access=registration| via=Internet Archive}}
• {{cite book|last1=Freedman|first1=Jill|title=Street Cops|year=1982|publisher=Harper & Row|location=New York|isbn=978-0-060-14874-4}}{{cite web|first1=Miss|last1=Rosen|access-date=September 30, 2021|title=The photographer who staked out inside the NYPD during the wild 1970s|url=https://i-d.co/article/jill-freedman-photography/|date=May 23, 2023|website=i-D}}
• {{cite book|last1=Freedman|first1=Jill|title=A Time that Was: Irish Moments|year=1987|publisher=Friendly Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-914-91909-4|url-access=registration| via=Internet Archive | url=https://archive.org/details/timethatwasirish0000free}}
• {{cite book|last1=Freedman|first1=Jill|title=Jill's Dogs|year=1993|publisher=Pomegranate|location=San Francisco|isbn=978-1-566-40526-3}}
• {{cite book|last1=Freedman|first1=Jill|title=Ireland Ever: The Photographs of Jill Freedman|year=2004|publisher=Harry N. Abrams|location=New York|isbn=978-0-810-94340-7| url=https://archive.org/details/irelandever00free | via=Internet Archive | url-access=registration}} With text by Frank McCourt and Malachy McCourt.{{cite magazine| title=Ireland Ever: The Photographs of Jill Freedman| department=review | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780810943407 | website=Publishers Weekly}}
• {{cite book|last1=Freedman|first1=Jill|editor-first1=Nikki |editor-last1=Greene | editor-first2=Cooper |editor-last2=Larsen |editor-first3=Stephen |editor-last3=Ostrowski |editor-first4=Lele |editor-last4=Saveri | title=Only Human|year=2016|publisher=8-Ball Community & Printed Matter|location=New York|oclc=965634818}} "Gold edition" of 30 copies (each with a print);{{Efn-lr|[https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/45613/ Description] at Printed Matter of the "gold edition" of Only Human.}} 2nd printing of 100.{{Efn-lr|[https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/46374/ Description] at Printed Matter of the second printing of Only Human.}}
• {{cite book|last1=Freedman|first1=Jill| editor-first=Steven | editor-last=Kasher | title=Resurrection City|year=2018|edition=2nd | publisher=Damiani| location=Bologna|isbn=9788862085830}} With essays by John Edwin Mason and Aaron Bryant.{{cite magazine| title=Jill Freedman: Resurrection City, 1968| department=review | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-8-8620-8583-0 | website=Publishers Weekly}}{{Efn-lr|[https://www.damianibooks.com/en/products/6208583 Description] at Damiani of the second edition of Resurrection City.}}
• {{cite book|last1=Freedman|first1=Jill| first2=Dennis | last2=Smith | editor-first=Keith | editor-last=Nicoliello | title=Firehouse | edition=2nd | year=2022 |publisher=Jill Freedman Irrevocable Trust | others=Designed by Asya Blue Design |location= |isbn=9798218064013}}{{Cite news | first=Conor | last=Risch | url=https://potd.pdnonline.com/2018/03/13/51526/ | title=Jill Freedman on the Poor People's Campaign | website=Photo District News | date=March 13, 2018 | access-date=May 26, 2023}}

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• {{Official website}}
• [https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/jill-freedman Jill Freedman] at Getty Images
• {{cite AV media|date=December 11, 2016|title=Jill Freedman's Madhattan - Miami Street Photography Festival 2016|language=en|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6w34N8ygW|format=33 min video|location=Miami|publisher=Miami Street Photography Festival|via=YouTube}}
• {{cite AV media|date=2016|title=SVA Masters Digital Photography: i3 lecture with Jill Freedman|language=en|url=https://vimeo.com/179516965|format=46 min video|location=New York|publisher=School of Visual Arts|via=Vimeo}}

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