"BRUCE DAVIDSON – MAGNUM LEGACY" par Vicki GOLDBERG. Editions Magnum Foundation & Prestel, Munich-Londres-New York. 2016. Petit in-8, couverture toilée grise sous photo, pages de garde illustrées. 192 pages. Texte en anglais de Vicki Goldberg, avant-propos de Sans Meiselas & Andrew E. Lewin, illustré de 176 reproductions photographiques noir & blanc et couleurs, in-texte et hors texte, par Bruce Davidson.

 

""When I was a kid, played baseball and you heard the sound the bat made when it really connected with the ball; you knew you had a great hit. It's the same with photography: sometimes you hear that click of the shutter and you know you've caught something really special." Bruce Davidson began his love affair with photography at age ten. The son of a hardworking divorced mother, he was a loner who disliked school and had difficulty conforming to the world around him. His camera released him from the boundaries of his youth and opened the doors to a lifetime's work. Vicki Goldberg's authoritative text explores the wide range of his vision and technique and reveals how his work has played a critical role in twentieth-century photography. The text includes beautifully reproduced images from his most iconic series such as Brooklyn Gang, East 100th Street, Subway, and Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, along with never-before-seen archival material from Davidson's private archive. Davidson's photographs reveal his curiosity about, and empathy for, his subjects; whether he is documenting circuses, gangs, East Harlem tenements, Jewish cafeterias, Welsh miners, or Central Park, Davidson imbues his work with an eye for narrative, His pictures tell stories - and he lets them speak for themselves. The result is a comprehensive and elegantly presented portrait of an artist's life and work."

 

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