1. DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER
Bruce Landon davidson
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER

2. Biography Born on September 5, 1933 in Oak Park, Illinois
Was drafted into Military Service(1957) stationed near Paris, France.
Education: Yale University (1955), Rochester Institute of Technology, Oak Park and River Forest High School
Achievements: Lucie Award For Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Photography, Gold Medal Lifetime Achievement Award from National Arts Club .
Published Work: Museum of Art, New York and the Tate Galleries, UK.

3. Childhood
Bruce Davidson was always fond of photography since the age 7, when he was first given a camera in 1940.
"Most boys my age had a dog," he says, laughing. "I had a camera.”
It was, he says, " a primitive little box-type machine" and he used it to take photographs of his suburban neighbourhood, Oak Park, Illinois.

4. Childhood
The young Davidson was so mesmerised by the magic of the dark room that he persuaded his mother, a single parent who worked in a local torpedo factory, to build him one in the basement of their house.
"My mother was utterly independent and she encouraged my younger brother and me to be the same way and to follow what we wanted to do. He became a scientist and I found my way through life through the camera's lens. I used it to record my feelings about the world. Still do."

5. Style of photography: Documentary Photography
Shirtless Youth Lighting up Cigarette, Brooklyn, New York, 1959
Silver gelatin print 11 x 14 inches, 16 x 20 inches, 20 x 24 inches

6. Girl with Kitten, London, 1960
Silver gelatin print
Available in four sizes: 11 x 14 inches, 16 x 20 inches 20 x 24 inches, 30 x 40 inches

7. Jimmy Armstrong with the Clyde Beatty Circus, Palisades, New Jersey, 1958
Silver gelatin print
Available in three sizes: 11 x 14 inches, 16 x 20 inches 20 x 24 inches

8. Two Nannies Pulling Buggies, from ‘England/Scotland’, 1966 Silver gelatin print
Available in three sizes: 11 x 14 inches, 16 x 20 inches, 20 x 24 inches

9. Cathy Fixing her Hair in Cigarette Machine Mirror with Arty at the Ocean Tide Baths and Bar, Coney Island, 1959
Silver gelatin print
Available in three sizes: 11 x 14 inches, 16 x 20 inches, 20 x 24 inches

10. USA. Alabama, Montgomery. Martin Luther KING Jr
USA. Alabama, Montgomery. Martin Luther KING Jr. at a press conference declaring the Freedom Rides will continue. John LEWIS (right) was beaten by KKK earlier in Montgomery.

11. England, 1960 Silver gelatin print
Available in three sizes: 11 x 14 inches, 16 x 20 inches 20 x 24 inches

12. Young Man and Coca-Cola Machine, 1959 Silver gelatin print
Available in three sizes: 11 x 14 inches, 16 x 20 inches
20 x 24 inches

13. Silver gelatin print
Available in three sizes: 11 x 14 inches, 16 x 20 inches 20 x 24 inches
Couple Dancing by a Juke Box, East 100th Street, New York City,

14. Child with Pram, from ‘Welsh Miners’, 1965
Archival pigment print
Available in three sizes: 11 x 14 inches, 16 x 20 inches, 20 x 24 inches

15. USA. Hollywood, California. 1960
USA. Hollywood, California Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand at a press conference for their film LETS MAKE LOVE ( in French : Le Milliardaire), together with Simone Signoret and Arthur Miller their respective spouses.

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