Bruce Davidson

Originally published in 1986, this classic collection of photographs is now revised and expanded to include 42 additional photographs, as well as a new introduction by Fab Five Freddy, one of the original graffiti artists of the era. The culmination of a five-year project in the early '80s documenting the life of the New York subway, Subway is yet another masterful work by the esteemed city and civil rights Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson. Features 102 full-colour plates.

Subway

Amina Lakhaney

This volume presents Bruce Davidson's personal selections from his lesser-known color archive. Ranging from a period of fifty-six years and counting, these images are representative of the photographer's color career. Assignments from various magazines (Vogue, National Geographic, Life magazine) and commercial projects led him to photograph fashion (early 1960s), the Shah of Iran with his family (1964), keepers of French monuments (1988), the supermodel Kylie Bax (1997), and college cheerleaders (1989). He photographed in India and China, but also at home in New York, in Chicago, and along the Pacific Coast Highway. In 1968, Michelangelo Antonioni invited him to document the making of his film Zabriskie Point. Davidson also continued to pursue personal projects, e.g. photographing the Yiddish writer and Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer (1972-75), the New York City subway (1980), and Katz's Delicatessen (2004). Often staying on in a country after an official assignment, he documented Welsh coalfields, family holidays in Martha's Vineyard, and travelled through Patagonia and Mexico.

In Color

Marie Winn

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

Bruce Davidson's photographs of Central Park reveal a humane, democratic haven of breathtaking beauty and ecological secrets, as well as a site for wondrous adventures. Renowned as an intrepid explorer of the urban terrain, and a member of Magnum Photos, Bruce Davidson has challenged himself in a remarkable new way, taking on the visual and metaphorical scope of Central Park. This chronicler of the New York subway, the civil-rights movement, and of life in East Harlem finds himself - as suddenly and surprisingly as Alice in Wonderland (who appears in one of his more humorous photographs) - in his city's verdant oasis. Davidson's photographic approach to the park's wildlife - human and otherwise - varies as much in format (panoramic, 35mm., and square) as it does in emotional quality. Complemented by an essay by author, journalist, and translator Marie Winn, a preface by writer and Central Park Conservancy Director Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, and Davidson's own anecdotal reflections, Central Park provides an expansive view of this wonderfully intricate and varied space.

Central Park

Mark Haworth-Booth

England/Scotland 1960 offers a visionary insight into the very heart of English and Scottish cultures. Reflecting a postwar era in which the revolutions of the 1960s had hardly yet filtered into the mainstream, Davidson's photographs reveal countries driven by difference--the extremes of city and country life, of the landed gentry and the common people--and lucidly portrays the mood of these times in personal and provocative imagery that is as fresh today as it was in that time.

England/ Scotland, 1960

Bruce

A Perfect Stranger

Il n'est pas de ces photographes qui courent le monde. Il va au plus près. Il va au plus vrai. Le désespoir de ce clown nain, la misère sans folklore des Noirs de Harlem ou le spectacle étrange et parfois terrifiant du métro à New York sont intensément présents dans ses images "vécues". De Jacobs Riis à Bruce Davidson, il y a comme une ligne droite vibrante, celle de la solidarité.

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The reproductions and layout are superb, rich and textured, and the accompanying text is illuminating ...

Brooklyn Gang

Photographs show the park, its surroundings, and the people who frequent it

'What you call a ghetto, I call my home' - Bruce Davidson East 100th Street, New York, was in the 1960s one of the city's most notorious slums. Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson spent two years of his life photographing the people of this block. An affecting testament to the lives lived within a community, the conditions suffered, the individual tales of trials and hopes, and the joy found in the most impossible places, this beautifully reproduced collection of photographs captures a time, place and people with tender respect. B/w.

Bruce Davidson

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