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Bruce Davidson - The Way Back
Howard Greenberg Gallery
June 22 through September 16, 2023
Fuller Building
8th floor
41 East 57th Street
New York, NY 10022
When I first assumed the position of Executive Director of Boston’s premier fine arts photography organization, I made a list of the people that I felt should be on our lecture schedule. Bruce Davidson was one of the top names on my list. His lecture was one of the most insightful and inspirational that the organization ever presented.
From the press release:
Bruce Davidson: The Way Back will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from June 22 through September 16, 2023. Selected by the acclaimed photographer from his vast archive, the exhibition will present previously unpublished work dating from 1957-1977. The photographs represent the arc of Davidson’s versatile career with individual images that were overlooked at the time. Some are from Davidson’s most well-known series—East 100th Street, a look at one Harlem block in 1966-68; Brooklyn Gang, which followed a group of teenagers in the summer of 1959; Time of Change, his Civil rights photographs from 1961-65; and Subway, a look at life on the trains from 1977. Other works, in the streets of New York, the markets of Mexico, or the wilds of Yosemite, stand apart from those series though remain characterized by a creative practice rooted in humanism. The works in the exhibition are drawn from a new book, Bruce Davidson: The Way Back, to be published by Steidl in 2023.
Images and information about the exhibition are below.