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Bruce Davidson first developed a passion for photography at the age of ten. The son of a hardworking, divorced mother, he was a loner who disliked school and struggled to fit into the world around him. His camera freed him from the constraints of his youth and opened the door to a life of work. Vicki Goldberg’s authoritative text explores the wide range of his vision and technique, and reveals how his work played a critical role in 20th-century photography.
This richly illustrated book features images from his most iconic series, such as “Brooklyn Gang,” “East 100th Street,” “Subway,” and “Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs,” as well as previously unpublished archival materials from Davidson’s private collection. Beautifully reproduced, these images reveal Davidson’s curiosity and empathy for his subjects. Whether documenting circuses, gangs, East Harlem tenements, Jewish delis, Welsh miners, or Central Park, Davidson infuses his work with a narrative perspective. His photos tell stories, and he lets them speak for themselves.
The result is a comprehensive and elegantly presented portrait of an artist’s life and work; with a foreword by Susan Meiselas and Andrew E. Lewin, an essay titled “At Home: Inside a Living Archive” by Tessa Hite, and black-and-white and color documents and photographs.
Published by Prestel, 2016
24 cm 28 cm, 192 pages, in good condition
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Bruce Davidson first developed a passion for photography at the age of ten. The son of a hardworking, divorced mother, he was a loner who disliked school and struggled to fit into the world around him. His camera freed him from the constraints of his youth and opened the door to a life of work. Vicki Goldberg’s authoritative text explores the wide range of his vision and technique, and reveals how his work played a critical role in 20th-century photography.
This richly illustrated book features images from his most iconic series, such as “Brooklyn Gang,” “East 100th Street,” “Subway,” and “Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs,” as well as previously unpublished archival materials from Davidson’s private collection. Beautifully reproduced, these images reveal Davidson’s curiosity and empathy for his subjects. Whether documenting circuses, gangs, East Harlem tenements, Jewish delis, Welsh miners, or Central Park, Davidson infuses his work with a narrative perspective. His photos tell stories, and he lets them speak for themselves.
The result is a comprehensive and elegantly presented portrait of an artist’s life and work; with a foreword by Susan Meiselas and Andrew E. Lewin, an essay titled “At Home: Inside a Living Archive” by Tessa Hite, and black-and-white and color documents and photographs.
Published by Prestel, 2016
24 cm 28 cm, 192 pages, in good condition
ISBN
