Jill Freedman

Jill Freedman, a hard-working, hard-living photographer who immersed herself for months at a time in the lives of street cops, firefighters, circus performers and other tribes she felt were misunderstood. After the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, she took up residence in a plywood shantytown erected in Washington by the Poor People's Campaign, which he had organized. There she took photos that landed her in Life magazine and produced her first book, "Old News: Resurrection City," in 1971.