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Background information
"Consisting solely of previously unpublished photographs, the volume 'The Way Back' is a deep dive through sixty-year career of Bruce DAVIDSON. Regardless of his motif, what emerges through this retrospective is his overt sensibility and empathy for his subjects, his commitment to documenting them in depth over time, and to capturing their beliefs, communities and subcultures. Unlike his peers who photographed events that constituted history, he focused on the people within these histories. Now, drawing near the end of his long career, the US-american Magnum photographer offers this book as a parting look at his artistic passage, an elegiac goodbye as well as a requiem: evidence how his vision, experienced over decades, has shaped our understanding of the world.
Content
The photographic volume 'The Way Back' chronologically presents photos by Bruce DAVIDSON made between 1957 and 1992, showcasing his exceptional versatility - from his earliest assignments to later seminal bodies of work including his year-long study of teenage members of a 'Brooklyn Gang' (1959), his extensive coverage of the American Civil Rights Movement in 'Time of Change' (1961- 1965), and his breakthrough portraits of the residents of a single block in Harlem in 'East 100th Street' (1966 - 1968). Series such as 'Subway' (1980) and 'Central Park' (1992) furthermore confirm him as a quintessential chronicler of New York City." (© Steidl Verlag, 2023)