Theory & Practice

Eli Reed’s Formative Years

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Eli Reed Boy from the African village. Oyotunji. South Carolina. USA. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed Young woman from the African village. Oyotunji. South Carolina. USA. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed | 18 Boy from the village. Oyotunji. South Carolina. USA. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed Boy from the African village. Oyotunji. South Carolina. USA. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed My brother Lamont, his son who was an Army Ranger, and myself in a bathroom mirror. Circa 2010. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed This photo was taken in 2000 while doing a photo essay in a joint reporting look of our town where we grew up with my friend and writer, Robert Spector, who also played on our Perth Amboy High scho (...)
Eli Reed This is a photo made with a very old early Leica camera with a messed up lens. My father, Ellis Reed Sr. and his friend Annie Brimson. Newark, NJ in 1970. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed Neo-Nazi demonstration, on assignment for ‘Our Town’. Upper east side of Manhattan. Near 84th street. Early ‘70s. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed Women inmates at San Bruno Jail. On assignment for San. Francisco Examiner. San Bruno, CA. Thanksgiving Day, 1982. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed When I was working for the Detroit News newspaper, I suggested that someone should cover the 1980 Liberty City race riots going in Miami, Florida. I told the editor it shouldn’t be me because I was (...)
Eli Reed At a playground where I was teaching art to kids at the park on the Saturday when the first Woodstock Music Festival was going on. I wanted to go but I was sure that if I drove from my home in Pert (...)
Eli Reed Festivalgoer offering me some watermelon. People were sharing food as a result of food shortages at the festival. Atlanta Pop Festival 1970. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed A soldier probably returned from Vietnam at Atlanta Pop Music Festival. A three day festival with 500,000 attendees on Saturday. It was the 2nd music festival that I covered for a NYC rock magazine (...)
Eli Reed A self portrait taken for a series inside my attic apartment in East Orange, NJ. Circa 1970-1971 © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed A portrait for 1975 solo exhibition, “The Whole Sick Crew”. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed A typical weekend day at Central Park in NYC. 1971. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed This photo is from a scene from an anti-war demonstration at the military base, Fort Dix, New Jersey. 1970. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed I made a photograph of a good friend and an artist whose studio I inherited in the mid-center downtown Perth Amboy. He was an abstract painter who loved Bob Dylan and who I had some interesting exp (...)
Eli Reed This is Marlene who was a hippie friend, seated in the front yard with her infant son at home in the Ironbound section of Newark, New Jersey. Circa 1973–1975. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed My high school reunion. Fellow students dancing up a storm. Woodbridge. NJ. 2000. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed This painting in the foreground was basically a rough sketch that was done of a planned abstract larger painting I was hoping to do. The smaller painting was a more traditional illustration. Newark (...)
Eli Reed During celebrations of the 200 year anniversary of United States Independence. Lower Broadway. Manhattan. 1976. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed My Father Ellis Sr., my brother Lamont, his wife Kathy and their baby daughter. 1970. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
Eli Reed This photo is typical street scene probably in Perth Amboy or East Orange, New Jersey. Early 1970s. © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos