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Bruce Davidson   (American, 1933) 

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Bruce Davidson Biography
1949   Received the First prize in the Kodak National High School Competition
1951 - 1954   Attended Rochester Institute of Technology
1955   Attended Yale University
1955   Was drafted into the army and met photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson while stationed near Paris
1957   Worked as freelance photographer for LIFE Magazine
1958   Became a full member of Magnum
1962   Received a Guggenheim fellowship and documented the Civil Rights Movement in America
1967   Received the first grant for photography from the National Endowment for the Arts
1969   Received the Critics Award, the American Film Festival (for Living off the Land)
1973   American Film Festival - Received the First Prize in Fiction (Isaac Singer’s Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko’s Beard)
1991 - 1995   "photographed the landscape and layers of life in Central Park"
1998   Received an Open Society Institute Individual Fellowship
2004   Received the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Photography
2007   Received the Gold Medal Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Arts Club
2009   Continues to work in photography
Selected Exhibitions
2008   "Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
"Bruce Davidson," Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgi (solo)
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA
2007   "Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side," The Jewish Museum, New York,NY, USA
"Central Park," PhotoEspaña, Astroc Fundacion, Madrid, Spain
The Nature of Paris, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-65 and East 100th Street – Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France
2006   "Subway" – Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
"Bruce Davidson" – Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
On the Street - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA
2005 - 2006   "Bruce Davidson" - Atlas Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2005   "Subway", Museum of the City of New York, USA
2004   "Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side", Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Ma, USA
"Subway" - Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, USA
2003   "East 100th Street 1966" – 1968, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, USA
"Inside, Outside" - Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, USA
"Retrospective" - Robert Klein Gallery, New York, USA
"Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs," 1961-65, ICP, New York, USA Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca, USA
"Images From the Inside, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, USA
1998 - 1999   "Brooklyn Gang," ICP, New York, New York, USA
1996 - 1997   "Bruce Davidson:" American Photography, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA
1983   ICOP, New York, USA
Musée Réattu, Arles, France
Galerie Municipale du Château d'Eau, Toulouse, France
1979   Galerie FNAC, Montparnasse, Paris, France
Bruce Davidson Photographs - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (solo)
1970   East 100th Street - Museum of Modern Art, New York
1963   Bruce Davidson - Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo)




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