Bruce Davidson: Subway
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He began taking photographs when he was ten, and studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Yale University School of Design. He became a member of Magnum Photos in 1958, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1967 and 1980, the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Photography in 2004, and a Gold Medal of Honor Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Arts Club in 2007. While not strictly a New York photographer, Bruce Davidson has created some of the most iconic New York photographs of the 20th century. His naked prose, together with his compelling images, evoke the speeding sensation of a subway car, tunneling out of the darkness into a new light and unmistakable beauty.
Henry Geldzahler was a curator of contemporary art in the late 20th century, as well as a modern art historian and art critic. full-pg illustrations in color, signed by Davidson on the half title, afterword by Henry Geldzahler; fine in original gray cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Dustjacket wonderful fresh with slightest trace of use, but with no tears, no missing parts and no remarkable flaws or defects. It’s a great social equalizer … From the moving train above ground, we see glimpses of the city, and as the train moves into the tunnels, sterile fluorescent light reaches into the stony gloom and we, trapped inside, all hang on together,” observes Davidson in the introduction to his book.
In 1986, Aperture first published Bruce Davidson’s Subway – a ground-breaking series that has garnered critical acclaim both as a document of a unique moment in the cultural fabric of New York City as well as for its phenomenal use of extremes of color and shadow set against flash-lit skin. While getting intimately close with his subjects was paramount to his success, Davidson did not think of himself as a documentary photographer, saying, “Documentary photography suggests you just stand back, that you’re not in the picture, you’re just recording.
Davidson continues to create classic bodies of work from his 50-year career that have been extensively published in monographs and are included in all the major public and private fine art collections around the world. x 12 inches, 125 pages, gray cloth with lettering stamped in black, matching slipcase, slight soiling and wear to slipcase, Expanded version of the book that was originally published in 1986, with the photographs produced during 1980 and 1981. Although our meeting was momentary, he gave himself to the camera and then was gone, back into the bowels of Brooklyn. His initial expeditions into the subways were hindered by the fears of attack from street urchins, as he was seen as a tourist with expensive equipment in the most dangerous neighborhood of the city. Davidson started playing at being a detective, channeling the idea in the subway that he was untouchable.This work was published by Harvard University Press in 1970 under the title East 100th Street and was later republished and expanded by St.
As I went down the subway stairs, through the turnstile, and on to the darkened station platform, a sense of fear gripped me.A woman named Kathy, staring at herself in a cigarette machine in one of his most famous photographs, shot herself with a shotgun. This helped perpetuate a certain stereotype among the community, which stills exists in the hearts and minds of some people to this day. Davidson’s accompanying text tells the story behind the images, clarifying his method and dramatizing his experience.
- Fruugo ID: 258392218-563234582
- EAN: 764486781913
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