Bruce Davidson

American photographer
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September 5, 1933, Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. (age 91)

Bruce Davidson (born September 5, 1933, Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.) is an American photographer and filmmaker whose emotionally charged images frequently convey the loneliness and isolation of the subjects portrayed. Davidson studied photography at the Rochester (New York) Institute of Technology (1951–54) and the School of Design of Yale University (1955) in New Haven, Connecticut. He worked for Life magazine for a year before joining the Magnum Photos cooperative in 1958. During this period he produced a number of outstanding photo-essays on such subjects as a circus clown, a Brooklyn teenage gang, Welsh mining towns, and London life. Davidson’s first ...(100 of 199 words)