Signed Bruce Davidson: England/Scotland 1960. Stated First Edition 2005. HC, DJ

Description: England / Scotland 1960DAVIDSON, BrucePublished by Steidl, Göttingen, 2005 ISBN 10: 3865211275 / ISBN 13: 9783865211279 Signed/Inscribed by Bruce Davidson, "To John" stated first edition 2005, first printing hardcover in fine condition with the exception of a remainder mark and faint soil mark at bottom text block. Dust jacket is near fine, lightly soiled with slight shelf wear. Gray cloth hardcover with black & white photo image tipped on and Illustrated with his amazing black & white full page plates. With essays by Mark Haworth-Booth and Bruce Davidson. Edited by Bruce Davidson and Michael Mack. 192 pages, 120 tritone plates. 235 x 270 mm. Text in english. Previously owned by ABAA/ILAB book dealer. Shipped bubble-wrapped in a sturdy box to protect value. In 1960, after completing an intense year photographing a notorious Brooklyn street gang called "The Jokers", Bruce Davidson decided that he needed to remove himself from the tension, depression, and potential violence connected to that work. He was given an assignment to photograph Marilyn Monroe during the making of John Houston's film The Misfits in the Nevada desert, and then travelled to London on a special commission for The Queen magazine. Edited by Jocelyn Stevens, The Queen was a magazine devoted to British life-style and Davidson was charged, with no specific agenda, to spend a couple of months touring England and Scotland to build a visual portrait of the two countries. England/Scotland 1960 offers a poetic insight into the very heart of English and Scottish cultures. Reflecting a post-war era in which the revolutions of the 1960s had hardly yet filtered into the mainstream, Davidson's photographs reveal countries riven by difference the extremes of city and country life, of the landed gentry and the common people and lucidly portrays the mood of these times in a personal and provocative imagery that is as fresh today as it was in that time. Published in this book for the first time in its entirety, this is one of the undiscovered gems of late twentieth century documentary photography. 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.

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