The Department of Fine Arts of the Haverford College presents Bruce Landon Davidson: Humanistic Documentarian, Photographs from 1958- 1992.
This survey of thirty-seven of Bruce Davidson’s innovative black and white silver gelatin photographic prints from 1958 to 1992 is one of his most important periods as a humanist and documentarian. This celebrated work when placed with works by Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, August Sander, and Lewis Hine make obvious Davidson’s historical connection and affinity with these photographers and their works while showing Davidson’s singularity as an artist and documentarian.
Davidson’s photographs produced beginning at mid-twentieth century, portray cultural phenomena like big top tent circuses in America as they were dying out; and simultaneously he photographed profound social and political change as they were being ushered in by the civil rights movement. These epical historical moments were to transform the norms of American society from below and above for generations to come.
Bruce Davidson born September 5, 1933 in Oak Park, Illinois, studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York and Graphic Design at the School of Art, Yale University in 1955. Later during military service in Paris, he met Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the founders of Magnum Photos. Davidson became a full member of Magnum in 1958; and he worked as a freelance photographer for Life magazine from 1958 to 1961.
Bruce Landon Davidson: Humanistic Documentarian, Photographs from 1958-1992
June 2 to December 6, 2025
Jane Lutnick Fine Arts Center
Atrium Gallery
Department of Fine Arts
Haverford College
370 Lancaster Ave.
Haverford, PA 19041
https://exhibits.haverford.edu/finearts/bruce-landon-davidson-humanistic-documentarian-photographs-from-1958-1992/
Gallery Hours
Summer Hours:
June 2 to September2, 2025: Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
Winter Hours:
September 3 to December 6, 2025: Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, Weekends 12pm-6pm
