History & Criticism - General & Miscellaneous Photography, New York School Photography, Photographers - Biography, Individual Photographers & Professionals, Urban Photography
About the Author, Bruce Davidson; intro. by Henry Geldzahler
Bruce Davidson
Bruce Davidson worked as a freelance photographer for Life Magazine and joined Magnum Photos in 1958. As a documentary photographer, he produced two photo essays, "Brooklyn Gang" and the "Freedom Rides." He photographed the Civil Rights Movement, including a rally in Harlem, Ku Klux Klan cross burnings, and the marches in Birmingham and Selma, Alabama. In 1966 he won the first photography grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to document East 100th Street in Harlem; this work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art.
