This book presents a selection of one hundred and twenty photographs by Bruce Davidson, which he chose from fifteen photo essays. This collection, the result of twenty years of work, is illuminated by his candid reflections, which trace his journey and his passionate search for identity. This selection clearly illustrates the evolution of his work and personality, from the impressionistic style of *The Widow of Montmartre* (1956) to the profound poetry and acute realism of *The Cafeteria* (1976). Through The Dwarf (1958), A Gang in Brooklyn (1959), England and Scotland (1960), American Blacks (1962–1965), The Bridge (1963), Los Angeles (1964), and Welsh Miners (1965). Of his splendid essay East Hundredth Street, the result of two years of work (1966–1968), John Szarkowski, chief curator of the Department of Photography at the National Museum of Modern Art in New York, wrote: “He shows us real people, photographed during those special moments of inaction when the complexity and ambiguity of individual lives triumph over abstraction.”
Published by Chêne Editions, 1978
28.5 cm 30 cm, 166 pages
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This book presents a selection of one hundred and twenty photographs by Bruce Davidson, which he chose from fifteen photo essays. This collection, the result of twenty years of work, is illuminated by his candid reflections, which trace his journey and his passionate search for identity. This selection clearly illustrates the evolution of his work and personality, from the impressionistic style of *The Widow of Montmartre* (1956) to the profound poetry and acute realism of *The Cafeteria* (1976). Through The Dwarf (1958), A Gang in Brooklyn (1959), England and Scotland (1960), American Blacks (1962–1965), The Bridge (1963), Los Angeles (1964), and Welsh Miners (1965). Of his splendid essay East Hundredth Street, the result of two years of work (1966–1968), John Szarkowski, chief curator of the Department of Photography at the National Museum of Modern Art in New York, wrote: “He shows us real people, photographed during those special moments of inaction when the complexity and ambiguity of individual lives triumph over abstraction.”
Published by Chêne Editions, 1978
28.5 cm 30 cm, 166 pages
ISBN
