Bruce Davidson LA, NY, UK
Bruce Davidson LA, NY, UK November 1 -December 1, 2021
Online at Asher Grey Gallery on Artsy
Sales to benefit Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency www.jthar.com
Bruce Davidson documents the lives of his subjects with sensitivity and sympathy. His photographs express his own desire to observe, understand, and reveal the complexity of people and their communities. He transforms intimately observed details and events into stories about individuals' lives that reflect concerns and emotions common to all.
Bruce Landon Davidson is an American photographer. He has been a member of the Magnum Photos agency since 1958. His photographs, notably those taken in Harlem, New York City, have been widely exhibited and published. He is known for photographing communities usually hostile to outsiders.
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Bruce Davidson has been interested in photography since age ten. While attending the Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University, he continued studying photography and was particularly inspired by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith. After military service he worked for LIFE in 1957 before joining Magnum, the cooperative photo agency founded in 1947 by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger, and Chim (David Seymour). In his early work, Davidson typically selected subjects who were unusual or isolated from society, including a widow living in a Paris garret, a dwarf clown, and a teenage Brooklyn gang. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph events and figures of the civil rights movement, and in 1967 received the first photography grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts. He spent the next two years photographing one city block in New York City's East Harlem, publishing this work as East 100th Street (1970), one of his many books.
Established in 2007, JTHAR is a nonprofit artist residency that awards an international community of artists the gifts of time and space amidst the extraordinary natural beauty of Joshua Tree National Park. Six to seven week residencies include scholarship funds, living accommodations, studio space designed to accommodate a broad range of artistic activity and a gallery exhibition.
Artists selected for this program are at all stages of their careers and work in all media, including drawing, painting, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and non-fiction writing, interdisciplinary, social practice and architecture.
JTHAR fosters creativity through opportunities for exploring, experimenting, quiet reflection, engagement and cross-cultural exchange with the vibrant local artist community. We establish spaces where inspiration happens on a daily basis, so artists can do the work of innovating, changing the cultural landscape and generating a fresh look at the way we connect to each other and to the world.
As a 501c3 non-profit artist residency, we rely on the support of individuals like you to fulfill JTHAR’s mission of being a place that inspires creativity and provides the resident artists with the time, facilities, support essential to give that creativity form. In return, we provide unparalleled access to the creative processes of regional, national and international artists Donors are an integral part of the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency community: your unwavering support means the world to us.
Art is an important part of life. It inspires, informs and presents us with solutions to our world's problems.
We believe in the Power of ART to change lives, and every year, we are honored to welcome artists to Joshua Tree to experience the desert and gain inspiration from the highlands. We are honored to be able to give artists an opportunity to have time & space away from the confines of everyday life to focus solely on their creative process.
Learn more: https://www.jthar.com
Contact us for more information or to view work in person.
Exhibit online at https://www.artsy.net/asher-grey-gallery
Asher Grey Gallery
[email protected]
310 562 0511
Online at Asher Grey Gallery on Artsy
Sales to benefit Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency www.jthar.com
Bruce Davidson documents the lives of his subjects with sensitivity and sympathy. His photographs express his own desire to observe, understand, and reveal the complexity of people and their communities. He transforms intimately observed details and events into stories about individuals' lives that reflect concerns and emotions common to all.
Bruce Landon Davidson is an American photographer. He has been a member of the Magnum Photos agency since 1958. His photographs, notably those taken in Harlem, New York City, have been widely exhibited and published. He is known for photographing communities usually hostile to outsiders.
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Bruce Davidson has been interested in photography since age ten. While attending the Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University, he continued studying photography and was particularly inspired by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith. After military service he worked for LIFE in 1957 before joining Magnum, the cooperative photo agency founded in 1947 by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger, and Chim (David Seymour). In his early work, Davidson typically selected subjects who were unusual or isolated from society, including a widow living in a Paris garret, a dwarf clown, and a teenage Brooklyn gang. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph events and figures of the civil rights movement, and in 1967 received the first photography grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts. He spent the next two years photographing one city block in New York City's East Harlem, publishing this work as East 100th Street (1970), one of his many books.
Established in 2007, JTHAR is a nonprofit artist residency that awards an international community of artists the gifts of time and space amidst the extraordinary natural beauty of Joshua Tree National Park. Six to seven week residencies include scholarship funds, living accommodations, studio space designed to accommodate a broad range of artistic activity and a gallery exhibition.
Artists selected for this program are at all stages of their careers and work in all media, including drawing, painting, photography, film, video, new media, installation, fiction and non-fiction writing, interdisciplinary, social practice and architecture.
JTHAR fosters creativity through opportunities for exploring, experimenting, quiet reflection, engagement and cross-cultural exchange with the vibrant local artist community. We establish spaces where inspiration happens on a daily basis, so artists can do the work of innovating, changing the cultural landscape and generating a fresh look at the way we connect to each other and to the world.
As a 501c3 non-profit artist residency, we rely on the support of individuals like you to fulfill JTHAR’s mission of being a place that inspires creativity and provides the resident artists with the time, facilities, support essential to give that creativity form. In return, we provide unparalleled access to the creative processes of regional, national and international artists Donors are an integral part of the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency community: your unwavering support means the world to us.
Art is an important part of life. It inspires, informs and presents us with solutions to our world's problems.
We believe in the Power of ART to change lives, and every year, we are honored to welcome artists to Joshua Tree to experience the desert and gain inspiration from the highlands. We are honored to be able to give artists an opportunity to have time & space away from the confines of everyday life to focus solely on their creative process.
Learn more: https://www.jthar.com
Contact us for more information or to view work in person.
Exhibit online at https://www.artsy.net/asher-grey-gallery
Asher Grey Gallery
[email protected]
310 562 0511