SIGNED; Bruce Davidson - Central Park (UNIQUE ASSOCIATION + COLLECTOR'S COPY) - 1995

ASSOCIATION COPY WITH EARLY DEDICATION BY THE ARTIST FROM 1999 (!) =
UNIQUE COLLECTOR'S ITEM.

Signed, dated and dedicated by the legendary American Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson with longer, very personal words to former German Gallerist Bodo Niemann and his wife in the nineties, just four years (1999) after the book came out (1999):
"For Elke and Bodo with great respect for your photographic taste and judgement. Bruce Davidson. 1999. Berlin."

WITH ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET.

Bruce Davidson's photographs of Central park reveal a haven of breathtaking beauty and ecological secrets, as well as a site for wondrous adventures. Renowned as an intrepid explorer of the urban terrain, and a member of Magnum Photos, Bruce Davidson has challenged himself in a remarkable new way, by taking on the visual and metaphorical scope of Central Park. Always compassionate, often idiosyncratic, this work reveals a sublime and at times transcendent vision. Davidson seems as comfortable with a wedding, a landscape, or a roller skater as he does with Central Park's more permanent residents, a newborn bird or a man seeking refuge on a cold winter's night. Davidson has intuitively discovered a multiplicity of mysteries, eccentricities, and characters that together reflect the vibrant and complex city of which the park is the heart and soul. At the same time, Bruce Davidson's Central Park becomes a metaphor for a larger human experience. With text by author, journalist, and translator Marie Winn, a preface by writer and former Central Park Conservancy director Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, and Davidson's own anecdotal reflections, Central Park provides an expansive view of this wonderfully intricate and varied space."
(from the publisher)

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Aperture, New York. 1995. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 310 x 250 mm. Black and white photos. Photos: Bruce Davidson. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside excellent, fresh and flawless, clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts and with complete flaps; normal trace of use, excepted a longer crease at the right part of the front cover, no other remarkable defects. Overall fine condition.

Photobook classic by Bruce Davidson about the "Central Park" in New York -
with long and very personal dedication by the artist to his German gallerist.

ASSOCIATION COPY. UNIQUE COLLECTOR'S ITEM.

Bruce Davidson began photography at the age of ten in Oak Park, Illinois. He attended the Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University and was later drafted into the army and stationed near Paris where he met Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the four founders of the renowned international cooperative photo agency, Magnum Photos. After military service, in 1957, Davidson worked as a freelance photographer for Life Magazine and in 1958 became a full member of Magnum Photos. From 1958 to 1961 he created such seminal bodies of work as The Dwarf, Brooklyn Gang, and the Freedom Rides. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962 to photograph what became a profound documentation of the Civil Rights Movement in America. In 1963 the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented his work in a solo show. In 1966 he was awarded the first grant for photography from the National Endowment for the Arts, and spent two years bearing witness to the dire social conditions on one block in East Harlem. This work was published by Harvard University Press in 1970 under the title East 100th Street and was later republished and expanded by St. Ann’s Press. The work became an exhibition that same year at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1980 he captured the vitality of the New York Metro’s underworld that was later published in his book Subway and exhibited at the International Center for Photography in 1982. In 1995 he photographed the landscape and layers of life of Central Park. Davidson continues to create classic bodies of work from his 50-year career that have been extensively published in monographs and are included in all the major public and private fine art collections around the world.