Artworks by Bruce Davidson at Greg Kucera Gallery on artnet

Bruce Davidson

(American, born 1933)

Bruce Davidson

Cotton Picker Being Paid-Greensboro, North Carolina, 1962

4,300 USD

Biography

Timeline

1949: Received the First prize in the Kodak National High School Competition
1951 - 1954: Attended Rochester Institute of Technology
1955: Attended Yale University
: 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

Exhibitions

2009: Central Park - Sony World Photography Awards, Cannes, France
2008: Bruce Davidson, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgi (solo)
: 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 (solo)
: On the Street - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL
: Subway – Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 - 2006: Bruce Davidson - Atlas Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: Retrospective - Robert Klein 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
: Subway - Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY
: Inside, Outside - Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY
2005: Subway, Museum of the City of New York, 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: East 100th Street, The Cafeteria, and Subway - Smithsonian 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
1965: Photographs by Bruce Davidson - Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1963: Bruce Davidson - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)

Public Collections

: National Gallery of Canada, Musée des Beaux-Arts du 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

Literature

2007: Circus, Steidl, Germany
2005: England / Scotland 1960, Steidl, Germany
2004: Isaac Singer and the Lower East Side, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, USA
2003: Subway, St. Ann's Press, USA
2002: Time of Change, Civil Rights Photographs 1961-1965, St. Ann's Press, USA
1999: Portraits, Aperture, USA
1998: Brooklyn Gang, Twin Palms, USA
1997: Photo Poche, Editions Nathan, France
1995: Central Park, Aperture, USA
1990: Bruce Davidson (Photofile), Thames & Hudson, UK
1986: Subway, Aperture, USA; St Ann's Press, USA
: Bruce Davidson, Pantheon/National Center of Photography, USA
1979: Bruce Davidson Photographs, Simon & Schuster, USA; (Bruce Davidson Photographs), Le Chêne, France
1973: Subsistence USA, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, USA
1970: East 100th Street, Harvard University Press, USA; St. Ann's Press, USA
1966: The Negro American, Houghton, Mifflin, USA
1964: The Bridge, Harper & Row, USA

Bruce Davidson

(American, born 1933)

Bruce Davidson

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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