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Bruce Davidson
PhotographerKnown for:
East 100th Street (1970) and civil rights documentary photography
Education:
Rochester Institute of Technology; Yale University (under Josef Albers and Alexey Brodovitch)
Bruce Davidson joined Magnum Photos in 1958 and photographed the civil rights movement in the American South before beginning a ten-year project on East 100th Street, a single block in East Harlem. His method of building trust with residents over time produced a body of work that remains one of the most sustained documentary investigations of a single community in American photography. He also photographed the Freedom Riders in 1961.
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Leica
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Davidson photographed "East 100th Street" (1970) with a Leica, using a tripod and slow shutter speeds to make deliberate, formal exposures; his use of Leica equipment is documented in Magnum retrospective accounts of the project.
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Last updated March 20, 2026
