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FREUDY PHOTOS ARCHIVES, VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS, CLASSIC COLLECTOR’S ITEMS

For over 60 years, Freudy Photos, the East Coast’s premier society photographers, captured the beauty and split-second action of equestrian sports, and photographed America’s aristocratic, dynastic families from New York to Palm Beach. In the 1920s, Austrian-born Harry Freudy, a society photographer for the New York Journal-American newspaper, opened Freudy Photos studios in Aiken, S.C., and New York City.

Ted Freudy joined his father’s business in 1937, after graduating with honors from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In W.W.II, he served in a U.S. Army Photographer’s Unit, fought in the Philippines as a four-time decorated officer, and returned to Freudy Photos in 1946.

Following his father’s death in 1957, Ted became New York’s top society photographer for the next 30 years, covering Polo Matches, Steeplechase Races, Pony Races, Fox Hunting, Horse Shows, Hound Shows, and private social events.

Ted covered events at the Maryland Hunt Cup, Rosetree, Greentree, Litchfield, Newport Carriage Festival, Rolling Rock Hunt, Bryn Mawr Hound Show, Meadowbrook Polo Club, Fair Hill Races, Tuxedo Park, Rombout, Cheshire Hunt, Smithtown Hunt, Goldens Bridge Hunter Pace, Radnor Hunt, North Shore Carriage Meet, Monmouth Hunter Pace, Old Westbury, Millbrook, Essex, Far Hills, Piping Rock, Aiken, Devon, Southampton, the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden, and the annual Masters of the Foxhunt Dinner … and more.

His Golf Tournament photos feature A.C. and Pete Bostwick, Claude Harmon, Buzzy Sheftel, Justine Cushing, and sugar king Pepe Fanjul, among many others.

Ted photographed Debutante Parties, Cotillions, Assemblies, Bridal Dinners, Weddings, Christenings, Birthday Parties, and other private events of Social Register families at their homes and at exclusive clubs. His portraits of society’s brides and brides-to-be were published in the Sunday edition of the New York Times for over 30 years.

Ted Freudy’s outstanding photographs, easy manner, and strict professionalism earned him the respect and trust of generations of the privileged.

He photographed the families of Ford, DuPont, Rockefeller, Harrington, Fisk, Paley, Phipps, Whitney, Bostwick, Hitchcock, Jackie Kennedy, Joseph Widener, Stewart & Phillip Iglehart, Gimbel, Burden, Hutton, Mortimer, Duke, Oxenburg, Roosevelt, Biddle, Strawbridge, Winston Guest, Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Hannum, Goodyear, von Stade, Lilly Pulitzer, McKim, Arthur Godfrey, Stoddard, Leslie Combs, F. Ambrose Clark, John Schiff, Fern Tailer, Clarence Pell, Eve Pell, Eve Ledyard, L.C. Ledyard, George A. “Frolic” Weymouth, Bouvier, Auchinchloss, Caroline Kennedy, John Kennedy Jr., Chauncey Stillman, Merck, Doubleday, Farnham Collins, Danforth, Frank Shields, Ordway, Bancroft, Carroll Bassett, Alan Corey, Kendrick Gillespie, and hundreds more.

Ted’s remarkable photo of a Lippanzer horse was chosen for exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. His photos of Jackie Kennedy appeared in The Private Passion of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, by Vicky Moon (ReganBooks 2005). Two additional books and a documentary film containing Ted Freudy’s photos are scheduled for publication and release in 2008.

Ted Freudy died in 2005. He had been too ill to properly preserve his work, and sadly, the bulk of it was destroyed through neglect. Shortly after his death, his stepdaughter, Lorna Drake, discovered more than 1,500 society and equestrian-related negatives, a small number of original prints, and perhaps 500 negatives of weddings from the 1970s and ‘80s.

Much of the work left behind contains little or no identifying information; Ted had filed the names, years, and events of these photos in his head. But loyal customers have been most helpful in filling in the blanks, and the search continues.

It’s unknown why Ted saved some pictures and not others. But these grand images of America’s aristocracy at play over the last century are all that remain of Freudy Photos. We offer a small number here, and images are being added weekly.

To order prints or for other inquiries, contact Chisholm Gallery by e-mail: info@chisholmgallery.com or telephone: 518.398.1246.

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