CIRCUS : Bruce Davidson ( signed )

Sam Holmes

ISBN 10: 3865213669 / ISBN 13: 9783865213662

Published by Steidl, Germany, 2007

About this Item

1st. Edition, 1st. Printing 2007, Light brown cloth hardcover with paste down image to the front board and red & black letters on the spine and cover ( no dust jacket as issued ), 101 page book. `This copy is signed only by photographer Bruce Davidson and illustrated with full page black & white plates . A Very scarce signed copy by this amazing Artist Photographer. Condition : Fine with a top corner bump . Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.

Seller Inventory # 041525-Y

Bibliographic Details

• Title: CIRCUS : Bruce Davidson ( signed )
• Publisher: Steidl, Germany
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3865213669
• ISBN 13: 9783865213662
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Bruce Davidson
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Issued
• Signed: Signed By Photographer
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Editions
  • Photography / Art / Monograph / Documentary

About this title

Synopsis

One of the world's most influential photographers, Bruce Davidson, takes readers inside three midcentury big tops in images that are poetic, realistic and profound. He reveals not only the swiftly vanishing cultural phenomenon of the circus, but what might be called the eternal human circus. At a three-ring show in 1958 he climbed to the top of the tent to view the performances of the famous liontamer Clyde Beatty and human cannonball Hugo Zacchini. His deeper interest lay in the daily lives of circus performers and producers--the roustabouts and riggers, and the pretty girl who rode an elephant in what was called the "spec." He also made an intimate series of a dwarf clown. In 1965 at a huge multi-ring coliseum show, Davidson took a more critical look at performances under a steel-and-concrete environment; continuing behind the scenes, his vision became sharper and more surreal. And in 1967, Davidson caught the elegant exuberance of an Irish one-ring circus. He photographed the kinds of performances that are the essence of the medium, including a face-to-face encounter with an exceptional trapeze artist. Most of these pictures are published here for the first time.