Bruce Davidson

Bruce Davidson, born in 1933 in Oak Park, Illinois, is an iconic American photographer of humanist and documentary photography. Trained at Rochester Institute of Technology and then Yale, he joined Magnum Photos in 1958 after serving in the army. His work is distinguished by a rare empathy and a profound social commitment. In the 1950s, he immortalized New York youth with “Brooklyn Gang," then followed the Civil Rights Movement in “Time of Change." In the 1960s, he created “East 100th Street," a poignant portrait of the residents of a poor neighborhood in Harlem. Later, with “Subway" (1980), he captured the raw energy of the New York subway in an explosion of color and emotion. His work, at the crossroads of reportage and art, explores the human condition with sincerity and visual power. Bruce Davidson lives in New York and remains a major figure in contemporary photography.