BRUCE DAVIDSON (born in Oak Park, Illinois, 1933) is considered one of America’s most influential documentary photographers. He began taking photographs when he was ten, and studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Yale University School of Design. In 1958 he became a member of Ma... Read more
BRUCE DAVIDSON (born in Oak Park, Illinois, 1933) is considered one of America’s most influential documentary photographers. He began taking photographs when he was ten, and studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Yale University School of Design. In 1958 he became a member of Magnum Photos, and in 1961, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to document the civil rights movement. After a solo exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1966, followed by a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1967, Davidson spent two years photographing in East Harlem, resulting in East 100th Street. In 1980, after living in New York City for twenty-three years, Davidson began his startling color essay of urban life in Subway. He received a second National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1980 and an Open Society Institute Individual Fellowship in 1998. His work has been shown at the International Center of Photography, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Museé Réattu, Arles, France; Burden Gallery (Aperture), New York; Parco Gallery, Tokyo; and the New York Historical Society. Davidson is also this year’s 2011 Aperture Benefit and Auction honoree, which will take place on October 17th.
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