Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933). Youth Standing on Rubble, East 100th Street, 1966. Gelatin silver ...

Description

Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933)
Youth Standing on Rubble, East 100th Street, 1966
Gelatin silver print, printed later
11 x 8-3/4 inches (27.9 x 22.2 cm) (image)
14 x 11 inches (sheet)
Signed and negative notation 66-46-606/4 in pencil, verso.

LITERATURE:
B. Davidson, Bruce Davidson Photographs, Agrinde/Summit Books, New York, 1978, p. 136;
C. Gollonet et al., Bruce Davidson, Aperture, NY/ Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid, 2016, pl. 126, p. 226;
B. Davidson, East 100th Street, St. Anne's Press, Los Angeles, 2003, np.


This tiny island of personal space... is a motif Davidson uses repeatedly in the East 100th Street project. Broken rubble and tufts of grass amid the rubble-and-trash covered ground around the housing blocks act as a stage on which family groups pose, and on which the pre-possessed gait of a solitary figure is meaningfully isolated and described. There is a subtle pathos in these pictures - in the absence of a pastoral background, the stark contrast between each person's thoughtful self-presentation and their desolate context.
CHARLOTTE COTTON


Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000.

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