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 Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 26 |
| Germany | 8 |
| Canada | 4 |
| Spain | 3 |
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in focus Galerie, Germany |
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MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, USA |
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ICP - International Center of Photography, USA |
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Howard Greenberg Gallery, USA |
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Biography: 
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Courtesy by "Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY"
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1933 Born in Oak Park, IL (US)
1943 Begins photographing at the age of ten. His mother gives him the freedom to roam the streets of Chicago with his Rolleiflex camera
1946 Begins working after school for a professional photographer
1951 Attends the Rochester Institute of Technology
1954 He is accepted at Yale University where he studies philosophy, painting, photography and graphic design
1955 His college thesis, picturing the emotion of football players behind the scenes of the game, is published in LIFE magazine in the October issue. Military service takes him to Paris where he photographs Mme. Fauchet, the widow of an Impressionist painter. He shows these photographs to Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris
1957 Returns to New York and begins working for LIFE magazine through a freelance program for young photographers. He is inspired by the Life photo-essays of W. Eugene Smith
1958 Joins Magnum Photos as an associate member
1959 Becomes a full member of Magnum. Completes Dwarf essay. Lives in a one-room skylight apartment in Greenwich Village and prints in a kitchen darkroom. Brooklyn Gang pictures published in Esquire
1960 Queen magazine invites him to go to Britain for two months
1961 Given first assignment to photograph high fashion for Vogue
1962 Receives a Guggenheim Fellowship to document the Civil Rights Movement and begins to travel in the South. This project continues for four years
1963 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, presents his work in a one-man show. Photographs the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge
1964 Continues feature work for Vogue – Philip Johnson in his glass house, Andy Warhol in his loft, Mrs.Henry Ford in her backyard. Begins a photography workshop in his Greenwich Village studio
1965 Photographs a "topless" restaurant in San Francisco for Esquire. Travels to Wales in the fall for a Holiday magazine assignment to photograph castles. Begins to stage-direct pictures of the mining country in South Wales
1966 He is awarded the first grant for photography from the National Endowment for the Arts. He spends the next two years documenting one block in East Harlem using a view camera
1967 Marries Emily
1968 Buys a 16-millimeter movie camera and begins filming on East 100th Street. Takes a job with Michelangelo Antonioni making still pictures for Zabriskie Point
1969 First daughter, Jenny, is born. Receives a grant from the American Film Institute to make a documentary, Living Off the Land, which wins the Critics Choice Award
1970 Harvard University Press publishes East 100th Street, considered a modern classic and now a much-coveted collector'’ item. The work is exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971 Makes a short children’s film called Zoo Doctor for CBS. Begins to replace magazine assignments with industrial and advertising photography
1972 Serves as American vice-president of Magnum. He is given another grant by the American Film Institute to make a documentary on an American writer. He chooses Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Yiddish writer. Isaac Singer’s Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko’s Beard wins first prize in fiction at the American film festival the following year
1974 Second daughter, Anna, is born
1983 Serves again as American vice-president of Magnum
Awards 1949 Wins first prize in the Kodak National High School Competition
1962 Guggenheim Fellowship Award
1967 The first grant for photography from the National Endowment for the Arts
1998 Open Society Institute Individual Fellowship
Collections
Topan’s "Masters of Photography"
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum Ludwig Koln, Germany
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
The Smithsonian, Washington D.C.
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Public exhibitions 51
Solo shows 17
2008
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| Bruce Davidson: Time of Change Photographs from the Civil Rights Movement - Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC |
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| Bruce Davidson - Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA |
2007
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Photographs by Bruce Davidson - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY |
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| Bruce Davidson - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris |
2006
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| Bruce Davidson - Selections from New York: 1959-1992 - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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| Bruce Davidson - On the Street - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2004
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side: Photographs by Bruce Davidson - Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA |
2003
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| Bruce Davidson Images from the Inside - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Bruce Davidson - Inside / Outside - Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Time of Change: Bruce Davidson, Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-65 - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Bruce Davidson - East 100th Street - Galerie Objekte, Munich |
1999
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| Bruce Davidson >East 100th Steet< - Galerie Bodo Niemann, Berlin |
1998
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| Bruce Davidson - The Brooklyn Gang, 1959 - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1986
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| Bruce Davidson Subway - Queens Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
1966
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| Bruce Davidson-Photographs - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
Group shows 34
2009
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| Sexy and the City - New York Photographs - Yossi Milo Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Isabelle Huppert: Woman of Many Faces - UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing |
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| new york photographs ...the statue of liberty - Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Rock My Religion 1 - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
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| Portraits >< Self-portraits - Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg |
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| Beyond the Backyard - MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL |
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| Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968 - The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA |
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| Dr. Reinold in Memoriam - galerie skala, Cologne |
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| Invitational Exhibition of Visual Art - The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, NY |
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| MAGNUM - 60 Years of Photoqraphy - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
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| Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children - DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA |
2007
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| 25 years A Celebration - Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Male & Female: Gender Performed in Photographs from the George Eastman House Collection - George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY |
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| Ingenium.Photographie et Ingeniosite 1846 - 2006 - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
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| PHotoEspaña 07 - PHotoEspaña, Madrid |
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| New York, NY - Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp |
2006
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| Americans - Masterpieces of American Photography from 1940 until now - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| Magnum Ireland at OBG - Ormeau Baths Gallery OBG, Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
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| In Sight - Resent additions to the permanent collection - MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL |
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| The Concerned Photographer - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| School of Hard Knocks - Monte Clark Gallery - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC |
2005
2004
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| Magnum Cinema - The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY |
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| Subway Series - The New York Yankees and the American Dream - Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York City, NY |
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| Glorious Harvest - photographs from the Michael E. Hoffman Tribute Collection - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
2003
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| The Changing Garden - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
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| New York - Capitale de la photographie (1900 – 2000) - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
1999
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| Augenblick und Endlichkeit - Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
1997
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| Private View. Collection Allan Porter - Museum im Bellpark, Kriens |
1992
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| In Our Time: The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1982
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| Les choix de l'œil : la photographie depuis 1940 - Musee du Bas-Saint-Laurent, Rivière-du-Loup, QC |
1981
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| Les choix de l'œil : la photographie depuis 1940 - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Mirrors and windows - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
| Dealer Directory 9 |
France
| | Magnum Photos Paris, Paris
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Germany
Korea (Republic)
USA
| | Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
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| | Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA
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| | Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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| | Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
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Public collections 9
Canada
| | National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
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USA
| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
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| | Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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| | The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
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Catalogs
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