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Bruce Davidson (American, 1933)
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Bruce Davidson
Brooklyn Gang, Girl Combing Hair in Mirror 1959
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Bruce Davidson
East 100th Street Façade 1966-1968
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Bruce Davidson
Subway (women in summer dresses on platform) 1980
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Bruce Davidson
The Dwarf (smoking with flowers in hand) 1958
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Biography |
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1949 |
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Received the First prize in the Kodak National High School Competition |
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1951 - 1954 |
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Attended Rochester Institute of Technology |
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1955 |
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Attended Yale University |
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1955 |
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Was drafted into the army and met photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson while stationed near Paris |
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1957 |
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Worked as freelance photographer for LIFE Magazine |
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1958 |
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Became a full member of Magnum |
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1962 |
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Received a Guggenheim fellowship and documented the Civil Rights Movement in America |
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1967 |
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Received the first grant for photography from the National Endowment for the Arts |
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1969 |
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Received the Critics Award, the American Film Festival (for Living off the Land) |
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1973 |
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American Film Festival - Received the First Prize in Fiction (Isaac Singer’s Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko’s Beard) |
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1991 - 1995 |
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"photographed the landscape and layers of life in Central Park" |
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1998 |
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Received an Open Society Institute Individual Fellowship |
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2004 |
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Received the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Photography |
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2007 |
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Received the Gold Medal Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Arts Club |
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2009 |
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Continues to work in photography |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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"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 |
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2007 |
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"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 |
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2006 |
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"Subway" – Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
"Bruce Davidson" – Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
On the Street - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA |
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2005 - 2006 |
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"Bruce Davidson" - Atlas Gallery, London, UK (solo) |
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2005 |
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"Subway", Museum of the City of New York, USA |
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2004 |
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"Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side", Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Ma, USA
"Subway" - Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, USA |
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2003 |
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"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 |
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1998 - 1999 |
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"Brooklyn Gang," ICP, New York, New York, USA |
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1996 - 1997 |
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"Bruce Davidson:" American Photography, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA |
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1983 |
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ICOP, New York, USA
Musée Réattu, Arles, France
Galerie Municipale du Château d'Eau, Toulouse, France |
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1979 |
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Galerie FNAC, Montparnasse, Paris, France
Bruce Davidson Photographs - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (solo) |
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1970 |
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East 100th Street - Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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1963 |
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Bruce Davidson - Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo) |
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