Union by Roberta Fineberg, Color Photograph of Butterfly Couple Iconic 1989 by Leonard Freed is

1989 by Leonard Freed is stamped and signed verso (back of photo)

For Black in White America Freed travelled to New York

The photographer travelled to New York

Often compared to Robert Mapplethorpe's nudes

translating a heightened sense of beauty and aesthetics

Union by Roberta Fineberg, Color Photograph of Butterfly Couple Iconic 1989 by Leonard Freed isFrom the transformative to the ephemeral, the birth and death of a butterfly is reimagined in a photo series on butterflies by Roberta Fineberg inspired by a poem by the 13th Century Persian poet Rumi who writes: Whatever you know, or dont only love is real. For Union RF explores the natural and man made world in which two caterpillars break free of their skin for a metamorphosis. Hatching into exquisite creatures, the vibrant couple sip nectar from