BRUCE DAVIDSON (PHOTOFILE) /ALLEMAND/ITALIEN - Softcover

DAVIDSON BRUCE

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500410720 ISBN 13: 9780500410721

Publisher: THAMES HUDSON, 1999

Synopsis

In 1960, after spending an intense year photographing a notorious Brooklyn street gang called The Jokers, Bruce Davidson decided that he needed to get away from the tension, depression and potential violence connected to that work. He took on a commission to photograph Marilyn Monroe during the making of John Houston's film The Misfits in the Nevada desert, and then traveled to London on a commission for The Queen magazine. Edited by Jocelyn Stevens, The Queen was a magazine devoted to British lifestyle and Davidson was charged, with no specific agenda, to spend a couple of months touring England and Scotland to build a photographic portrait of the two countries. England/Scotland 1960 offers a visionary insight into the very heart of English and Scottish cultures. Reflecting a postwar era in which the revolutions of the 1960s had hardly yet filtered into the mainstream, Davidson's photographs reveal countries driven by difference--the extremes of city and country life, of the landed gentry and the common people--and lucidly portrays the mood of these times in personal and provocative imagery that is as fresh today as it was in that time. Published in this book for the first time in its entirety, this is one of undiscovered gems of late twentieth-century documentary photography.

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Language Notes

Text: French

Edition details

• Publisher: THAMES HUDSON
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0500410720
• ISBN 13: 9780500410721
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144