Bruce Landon Davidson: Humanistic Documentarian,  Photographs from 1958-1992 

Davidson was born September 5, 1933 and studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, from 1951 to 1954 and Graphic Design at the Yale University School of Art in 1955. After leaving the military, he worked as a freelance photographer for Life, and from 1958 to 1961 created such seminal bodies of work as Circus, Brooklyn Gang, and Freedom Riders. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962 and created a profound documentation of the civil rights movement in America, later published as Time of Change. In 1963, the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented his early work in a solo exhibition. He spent two years witnessing the dire social conditions on one block in East Harlem and the resulting book, East 100th Street, was published by Harvard University Press in 1970. This work became an exhibition that same year at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, curated by John Szarkowski. This survey of thirty-six of Bruce Davidson’s black and white silver gelatin photographic prints comes from Haverford’s Fine Art Photography Collection.