Collection artist Bruce Davidson in the New York Times
Bruce Davidson, East 100th Street, 1966-68
With the release of a three-volume retrospective publication and two current exhibitions in Manhattan, Bruce Davidson has been attracting some much-deserved attention. Randy Kennedy discusses Davidson??s endurance and photographic prowess in his Sunday NYT feature. Kennedy interviews Davidson in his New York apartment where an entire room is filled with boxes of prints and contact sheets collected over more than fifty years. Of his subjects and compositions, Kennedy says Davidson is as meticulous as he is contemplative. Davison prowled ??for the perfect picture in a succession of circumscribed worlds he found and entered: tent circuses, Brooklyn gangs, East Harlem tenements, Jewish cafeterias, the civil-rights-era South,? and more recently, carefully chosen landscapes.
Bruce Davidson, from the Subway Series, 1980
In considering his photographic methods, Davidson reveals, ??I always felt that my best way with the camera was to stay longer, to get to know things. Not for a picture story, per se, but for a series of images that are kind of like charcoals that catch fire and burn into each other.? Look forward to more fascinating work from Davidson ?? even at 76, he shares that he plans to photograph for at least ten more years.
See more work at the MoCP collections page and a slide show via the NYT.