Bruce Davidson - Brooklyn Gang (FIRST PRINTING, VERY FRESH CONDITION) - 1998

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Bruce Davidson's "East 100th Street" is a milestone in the history of photobooks:
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Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1998. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 260 x 287 mm. 100 pages. Black and white photos. Photos: Bruce Davidson. Design: Jack Woody. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside excellent, very fresh and flawless; clean with no previous owner marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket fresh and complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; light trace of use, no remarkable defects. Overall very fine condition.

Wonderful Bruce Davidson title with original dustjacket - in very fresh condition.

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.