Bruce Davidson (photographer)
Bruce Davidson ( born September 5, 1933, Oak Park, Illinois, USA) is an American photographer.
Life
Davidson began to photograph at age 10. In 1949 he won the " Kodak National High School Competition ". He then served an apprenticeship and also studied photography. After completing military service, he worked briefly as a freelance photographer for LIFE, 1958, he was accepted at Magnum, a year later as a full member.
Reception
1963 Davidson was dedicated a solo exhibition at the " Museum of Modern Art " in New York, among other things, recordings of his series " Civil Rights Movement " and "The Dwarf" ( " The Dwarf " ) include. They show, for example, Malcolm X, protest marches with Martin Luther King. or the life of a circus clown behind the scenes.
In 1966 he received a scholarship from the " National Endowment for the Arts ", after which he spent two years in Spanish Harlem in New York. There he photographed life in and around a block of flats, the resulting photographs appeared in 1970 under the title " East 100th Street". This project called Fred Ritchin as " a major work in the history of documentary photography ." Here, Davidson learned the residents know and yielded to their demands. He did not make snapshots and scare people so perhaps, but waited for them approached him and even participated in the recording. " They called me the, pictures man '. (...) I let things run their course, I was available. They said, ' Take a picture of me ' I made the picture. . (...) I was when I came. They received their pictures, and I got mine. I saw my photographs hanging in all the houses of the street. "- Bruce Davidson
In his first series in color, he devoted himself to the New York subway. The under the title "Subway " (1986) published photographs show the diversity of passengers. Families, businessmen, homeless people or tourists became the focus of his paintings. Davidson wanted to represent the individual personalities, the day -to-day use a transport that is for many the epitome of anonymity and everyday life.
His published by Aperture in 1999 book " Portraits " shows photographs of famous people such as Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe, Leonard Bernstein and Roman Polanski.
2006, the book " Before the Moment - England and Scotland, 1960" appeared ( German: " England / Scotland 1960", Steidl Verlag, Göttingen). It contains a selection of Leica 6000 recordings which were created during several months of travel through England and Scotland on behalf of the magazine " The Queen".