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The New York Public Library
presents
An Art Book Series Event
Bruce Davidson
in conversation with Howard Greenberg
Wednesday June 16, 2010
6:00 p.m.
Margaret Liebman Berger Forum
Room 227 (2nd Floor)
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Avenue
5th Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018
212-340-0871
www.nypl.org
directions
Room 227 opens to public at 5:30 p.m.
All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.
Legendary photographer Bruce Davidson and New York gallerist Howard Greenberg appear
in a presentation of his retrospective book set, Bruce Davidson: Outside Inside, to discuss his stellar 60 year career and the publication process for his catalogue raisonné. This event is Davidson's only New York City appearance and he will sign copies of the books.
Outside Inside, published by Steidl, is a three-volume box set containing eight hundred photographs from Bruce Davidson’s archives. Davidson’s photography spans an intense fifty-year period, from his work as a student in 1954 to two recent works in progress, a series of innovative urban landscapes made in Paris (2006) and Los Angeles (2009). The text for the introductions to the fifty-three chapters comes from Davidson’s own insights, thoughts, and recollections. It includes iconic images from his seminal bodies of work: Circus (1958), Brooklyn Gang (1959), East 100th Street (1966–1968), Time of Change 1961-1965 (The Civil Rights Movement), Subway (1980), Central Park (1992–1995), and previously unpublished photographs. These three volumes celebrate the development of a master of the medium and reflect the artist’s own journey of consciousness.
Bruce Davidson began taking pictures at the age of ten in Oak Park, Illinois. He continued to further his exploration of photography at Rochester Institute of Technology, followed by Yale University. He was later drafted into the military, stationed in the Arizona desert and then sent to a unit near Paris, where he met Henri Cartier-Bresson. When he left military service in 1957, Davidson freelanced for LIFE, and in 1958 he became a member of Magnum. His numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (1962) and the first National Endowment for the Arts in Photography (1967). His work has been extensively published and included in many major fine art collections.
Howard Greenberg, the owner of the New York City-based Howard Greenberg Gallery, is one of the world's top photography dealers. He is an authority on 19th and 20th century photography, and has been an acknowledged leader of establishing its value on the fine art market. In recognition of these efforts, and his matchless collection of more than 30,000 photographs, American Photo magazine proclaimed Greenberg one of the 25 most important people in photography in 2005.
The program series An Art Book is a celebration of the essential importance and beauty of art books. The events showcase book presentations and discussions by world renowned artists, critics, curators, historians, and writers.
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