Bruce Davidson

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(b Chicago, IL, 1933). American photographer. While still at school he took photography lessons using a Rolleiflex. He studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology, NY (1951-4), then philosophy, painting, photography and (under Josef Albers) graphic design at Yale University, New Haven, CT (1955). While serving in the US Army (1955-7), he was stationed in Paris where he met Henri Cartier-Bresson and photographed Montmartre, Les Halles and other areas, in the style of Alfred Stieglitz. In 1958 he joined Magnum Photos, working as a fashion photographer and becoming a prominent photojournalist. He covered the race riots in the American South during the 1960s, and his work appeared in many leading international magazines. He is best known for numerous photographic essays on people living on the fringe of society (e.g. Clown, 1958; Rochester, NY, Int. Mus. Phot.), recorded with sensitivity and a visual richness, which were hallmarks of his style.

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Davidson, Bruce (b. 1933), American photographer. Born in Chicago, Davidson studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology and joined Magnum in 1958. His brilliant East 100th Street (1970), about the inhabitants of a particular New York neighbourhood, was the result of a two-year project, using a 4×5 in view camera. New York Subway (1986), rich in colour and brooding darkness, is a wrenching portrait of that graffiti-layered underworld and its sad, journeying people. He has consistently documented the disenfranchised, from Brooklyn gangs to the struggles of poor African-Americans.

— Tim Troy

Bibliography

• Davidson, B., Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs 1961-1965 (2002)

Bruce Davidson is the name of:

• Bruce Davidson (equestrian), American equestrian
• Bruce Davidson (photographer), American photographer
• Bruce Davidson (Ontario politician)

See also

• Bruce Davison, actor

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