Bruce DavidsonBruce Davidson is a American photographer and he is known for taking photographs in Harlem and New York, which have normally been published and exhibited shortly after. He is the photography known for photographing hostile communities and the outsiders. He started his photography at the age of just 10 when he mum built him a darkroom in the basement. After collage Davidson soon went into the U.S. Army where he severed in the Signal corps at Fort Huachuca in Arizona, which linked him in posts photo pool where he was given a number of routines photo assignments. Shortly after the Army he became a freelance photographer during the few years as a freelance photographer he produced Brooklyn Gang and The Dwarf. He also met another famous photographer by the name of Henri Cartier Bresson where they both started making a portfolio for Magnum and photo agency. In 1962 he had a piece of his work placed in the Museum Of Modern Art in New York City, the piece of work he created was based on the Civil Rights Movement. 1970 he published a piece of work named the 100th street and based on a two year documentation of a conspicuously poverty stricken block in East Harlem. I like Bruce Davidson's work because i find it interesting how he covers different aspects of society, which has different backgrounds to each of them. Also because of the fact he is not afraid to show people the work he creates and publish. He just wants his work out there to be known and to be recognized. He is different from all the other photographers i have researched because they do not cover different aspects of different cities.
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