Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933). Waitress, Topless Restaurant, 1965. Gelatin silver print, printed later. 12-1/4 x 8 ...

Description

Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933)
Waitress, Topless Restaurant, 1965
Gelatin silver print, printed later
12-1/4 x 8 inches (31.1 x 20.3 cm) (image)
14 x 11 inches (sheet)
Signed and negative notation 65-45-5/34A in pencil, verso.

LITERATURE:
B. Davidson, Bruce Davidson Photographs, Agrinde/Summit Books, New York, 1978, p. 114.

"In late 1965 Esquire sent me to a "topless" restaurant in San Francisco. The editors wanted pictures of an entertainer who had large breasts. I stood in the audience and saw the passive look of women on small stage platforms swaying their naked bodies to loud music. I went into the kitchen where a young waitress, with stretch marks from a child she had borne, carried platters of food to vacant-faced businessmen on their lunch hour. The true subject of these photographs was not their naked bodies but their endless aloneness."
BRUCE DAVIDSON


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