BIOGRAFIE
1933 | geboren in Oak Park, Illinois, USA |
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 |
1991 – 1995 | Photographed the landscape and layers of life in Central Park |
2009 | Continues to work in photography |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
2009 | Central Park - Sony World Photography Awards, Cannes, France |
2008 | Bruce Davidson, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgi Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA |
2007 | Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Central Park, PhotoEspaña, Astroc Fundacion, Madrid, Spain Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-65 and East 100th Street – Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France The Nature of Paris, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France |
2006 | Bruce Davidson – Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada On the Street - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL Subway – Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
2005 – 2006 | Bruce Davidson - Atlas Gallery, London, UK |
2005 | Subway, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY Subway - Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY Inside, Outside - Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY Images From the Inside, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-65, ICP, New York, NY Retrospective - Robert Klein Gallery, New York, NY |
2004 | Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA |
2003 | East 100th Street 1966 – 1968, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA |
1998 – 1999 | Brooklyn Gang, International Center of Photography, New York, New York, USA |
1996 – 1997 | Bruce Davidson: American Photography, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY |
1995 – 1996 | Bruce Davidson - Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
1988 | Institution, Washington, DC |
1983 | Subway - Galerie Municipale du Château-d'Eau, Toulouse, France Subway - Musée Réattu, Arles, France |
1982 | Subway - International Center of Photography, New York, NY |
1979 | Bruce Davidson Photographs - International Center of Photography, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Galerie Delpire, Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris Galerie FNAC, Montparnasse, Paris, France |
1970 | East 100th Street - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
1966 | Bruce Davidson - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
1963 | Bruce Davidson - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
2007 | Received the Gold Medal Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Arts Club |
2004 | Received the Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Photography |
1998 | Received an Open Society Institute Individual Fellowship |
1973 | American Film Festival - Received the First Prize in Fiction (Isaac Singer’s Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko’s Beard) |
1969 | Received the Critics Award, the American Film Festival (for Living off the Land) |
1967 | Received the first grant for photography from the National Endowment for the Arts |
1962 | Received a Guggenheim fellowship and documented the Civil Rights Movement in America |
1949 | Received the First prize in the Kodak National High School Competition |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
Canada, Ottawa New-York Historical Society, New York, NY San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Wilson Centre for Photography, London, UK Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ International Center of Photography, New York, NY Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France Masur Museum, Monroe, LA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |