Bruce Davidson Photographs At The Telfair Museums

"If I am looking for a story at all, it is in my relationship to the subject - the story that tells me, rather than that I tell" - Bruce Davidson

Bruce DAvidson

 

A collector who wishes to remain anonymous has donated 347 photographs by Bruce Davidson (born: Oak Park, Illinois in 1933) to the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia. The collection spans the Magnum photographer’s career from 1956 to 2008. Included in the collection are images from Davidson’s seminal bodies of work as The Dwarf, Brooklyn Gang, East 100th Street, Central Park and Freedom Rides.

 

Bruce Davidson

Memorial Day, Harlem, New York City from the Time of Change series, 1962

Bruce Davidson

Central Park series, 1960

Bruce Davidson

New York City, the Lower East Side, from the Cafeteria series, 1975

Bruce Davidson

Crowds gather outside the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama at the end of the Selma march. From the Time of Change series, 1965

Bruce Davidson

A boy works on his car, from the Brooklyn Gang series, 1959

Bruce Davidson

New York City, Spanish Harlem from the East 100th Street series, 1966

Bruce Davidson

A freedom rider on a bus in Alabama, with national guardsmen outside. From the Time of Change series, 1961

Bruce Davidson

Kathy fixes her hair in the mirror of a cigarette vending machine at Coney Island, from the Brooklyn Gang series, 1959

Bruce Davidson

New York City, from the Lower East Side series, 1990

Bruce Davidson

The Palisades, New Jersey, from the Circus (The Dwarf) series, 1958

Via: The Guardian

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