For over sixty years, Freudy Photos 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 1920's, Harry Freudy, society photographer for the New York Journal-American newspaper, founded Freudy Photos, Inc., with studios in New York City and Aiken, South Carolina, covering high-society's equestrian and social events. In 1937, Ted Freudy joined his father's business after graduating with honors from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. During World War II, he served in an Army Photographer's Unit and fought in the Philippines as a four-time decorated officer, returning to Freudy Photos in 1946, along with his older brother, Mal Freudy.

Following his father's death, in 1957, Ted Freudy became New York's top society photographer for the next thirty years, covering Polo Matches, Steeplechase Races, Pony Races, Fox Hunts, Horse Shows, Hound Shows, and the private events of Social Register families.

Freudy Photos covered the Maryland Hunt Cup, Rosetree Hunts, Litchfield, Newport Carriage Festival, Rolling Rock Hunt, Bryn Mawr Hound Show, Meadowbrook Polo Club, Fair Hill Races, Tuxedo Park, Rombout, Cheshire Hunt, Smithtown Hunt, Golden's Bridge, Radnor Hunt, North Shore Carriage Meet, Monmouth Hunter Pace, Old Westbury, Millbrook, Essex, Far Hills, Piping Rock, Aiken, Devon, Southampton, National Horse Shows, Masters of the Foxhounds Dinners, Golf Tournaments, Debutante Parties, Cotillions, Assemblies, Bridal Dinners, Weddings, Christenings, Birthday Parties, and other private events of Social Register families. Ted Freudy's portraits of society brides were published in The New York Times for over thirty years. Ted's outstanding photographs, easy manner, and strict professionalism earned him the respect and trust of generations of the privileged.

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

Ted Freudy's remarkable photo of a Lipizzaner Stallion was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Five early Freudy Photos images are available at The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, Toledo, Ohio. Freudy Photos polo images have been displayed at Polo Ralph Lauren's New York City flagship store. In 2010, Freudy Photos images of the Brown Brothers Harriman 150th Anniversary Celebration (1968) were added to the permanent reading collection of the New York Historical Society.

Published works containing Freudy Photos include The Private Passion of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, by Vicky Moon (ReganBooks 2005); The Country and Abroad magazine (May 2007); We Used To Own The Bronx, by Eve Pell (SUNY Press, 2009); Quest magazine (Spring 2009); Chronicle of the Horse magazine (March 2010); Practical Horseman magazine (Oct. 2010); Wylde Ride: A Horseman's Story, by Joe Dotoli (Trafford Publishing, 2010); Mr. Stewart's Cheshire Foxhounds, Seasons 2004-2009, by Kathleen Crompton (2010).

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