Bøger af Bruce Davidson

"MONA LISA'S SECRET" by Bruce Davidson; 144 Pages Everyone reflects on their life and wishes they may have had a mentor by their side to steer them clear of uncertain perils in the world and help guide them on their journey to success. Mona Lisa Romano was most fortunate, when Dr. Abigail Grant came into her life to stay. But even Abigail would not be able to fathom the unimaginable, unreachable heights that Mona Lisa Romano was destined to achieve. Mysteriously, the secret to Mona Lisa Romano's triumphs had always been hiding behind the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa's portrait created by the genius. Leonardo da Vinci. From the author of "Bear's In Charge," Bruce Davidson, in his novel, "Mona Lisa's Secret," reveals the mystery of the Mona Lisa's smile. Bruce is a graduate of a top-ranking United States university and a U.S. Air Force veteran. He has acted on movie sets and performed Shakespeare on stage.

Consisting solely of previously unpublished photographs, The Way Back is a deep dive through Bruce Davidson's 60-year career. The book chronologically presents photos made between 1957 and 1992, showcasing Davidson's exceptional versatility-from his earliest assignments to later seminal bodies of work including his year-long study of teenage members of a "Brooklyn Gang" (1959), his extensive coverage of the American Civil Rights Movement in "Time of Change" (1961-65), and his breakthrough portraits of the residents of a single block in Harlem in "East 100th Street" (1966-68). Series such as "Subway" (1980) and "Central Park" (1992) furthermore confirm Davidson as a quintessential chronicler of New York City.Regardless of his motif, what emerges through this retrospective is Davidson's overt sensibility and empathy for his subjects, his commitment to documenting them in depth over time, and to capturing their beliefs, communities and subcultures. Unlike his peers who photographed events that constituted history, Davidson focused on the people within these histories. Now, drawing near the end of his long career, Davidson offers this book as a parting look at his artistic passage, an elegiac goodbye as well as a requiem: evidence how his vision, experienced over decades, has shaped our understanding of the world.

Armed with only a dream and faith in a divine calling, Bruce Davidson co-founded one of the US's longest standing intentional communities. Through late night nail pounding, confronting interpersonal conflict, unwavering tenacity, and abundant contributions from countless others at Sirius, he has left a legacy that touched the lives of many.

Lesser Known presents Bruce Davidson's photos made between 1955 and 1993 that have been overshadowed until now. Consisting of 130 images that have been consistently overlooked throughout Davidson's long career, the book is the result of a year-long undertaking by the photographer and his studio to examine 60 years of contact sheets and edit individual images into a singular work that plots his professional and personal growth. Lesser Known showcases Davidson's perpetual versatility and adaptability as a photographer through a focus on early assignments, the intimate documentation of his family life and smaller series such as unpublished color photographs from major bodies of work including "East 100th Street" and "Campers."

Bruce Davidson is a pioneer of social documentary photography. In his work, Davidson prizes his relationship to the subject above all else. In addition to his civil rights series and his work in Harlem, this book includes Davidson's well-known series Brooklyn Gang, Subway, and Central Park.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Polish-born Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate, and New York documentary photographer Bruce Davidson collaborated on a surreal feature film made in 1973, entitled "Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko's Beard. This film was at once a documentary about Singer's New York and a dramatization of one his short stories. The film grew out of their friendship, as residents of the same building on the upper West Side of Manhattan, and their common interest in New York City street life. During and after production, Davidson made numerous portraits of Singer and also returned to the Lower East Side for a documentary series of photographs. A selection of more than forty of the stunning images made between 1957 and 1990 is available here for the first time in "Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Photographs by Bruce Davidson. The book also includes portraits of Singer, stills from the film, the black and white portfolio known as "The Garden Cafeteria, and selections from the Lower East Side series. "The Garden Cafeteria was a collaboration depicting denizens of the East Broadway restaurant frequented by Singer during his trips to "The Jewish Daily Forward. The portfolio has never been published nor exhibited in its entirety--until this volume. Included is an introduction by Singer himself on Davidson's images, an in-depth interview with Davidson about his art, aesthetic and political views, and his Jewishness, and a reflective, contextual essay by Ilan Stavans on the relevance of this collaboration between the writer and the photographer. Through Davidson's lens we see Singer's literary world of Holocaust survivors and emigres from EasternEurope--a displaced culture in its twilight. This book is a co-publication and appears in conjunction with an exhibition organized and presented by the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, on the occasion of the centennial celebration nationwide of Singer's birth in 2004.