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Bruce Davidson

From Bruce Davidson’s “Brooklyn Gang”

©Bruce Davidson, 1980, Untitled, Subway, New York

“Your red dress,’ she said, and laughed.

But I looked at the dress on the floor and it was as if the fire had spread across the room. It was beautiful and it reminded me of something I must do. I will remember I thought. I will remember quite soon now.”

― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

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Bruce Davidson. A Boy and his Rabbit(East 100th Street series), between 1966 and 1968.

Bruce Davidson.  Man Standing in Rubble (East 100th Street Series), between 1966 and 1968. 

Bruce Davidson.  Woman in Kitchen with Madonna(East 100th Street Series), between 1966 and 1968. 

Bruce Davidson. Guy with Cigarette by Brick Building(East 100th Street series), between 1966 and 1968. 

Bruce Davidson, Subway, New York City, 1980

Bruce Davidson, Subway, New York City, 1980

Brooklyn gang, NYC,  1959  (photo:  Bruce Davidson)

Outside a London coffee shop, 1960  (photo: Bruce Davidson)

• Time of Change, 1962 - Bruce Davidson

I will always love you how I do
Let go of a prayer for ya
Just a sweet word
The table is prepared for you
——

Wishing you Godspeed, glory
There will be mountains you won’t move
(Oh-oh-oh)
Still I’ll always be there for you
(Oh-oh-oh)
How I do
I let go of my claim on you, it’s a free world
You look down on where you came from sometimes
But you’ll have this place to call home, always

(This love will keep us still blinded of the eyes
Silence in the ears, darkness of the mind)

Until the time…

(This love will keep people blinded of the eyes

Silence in the ears, darkness of the mind)

‘Till the time we die…

(This love will keep us still blinded by the eyes

Silence in the ears, darkness of the mind)

Oh-oh, ohhh
I’ll always love you
Until the time we die
Oh-oh, ohhh

- Frank Ocean, ‘Godspeed’ via Blonde/Blond 

• Los Angeles 1964 - Bruce Davidson

Now you understand

Just why my head’s not bowed.  

I don’t shout or jump about

Or have to talk real loud.  

When you see me passing,

It ought to make you proud.

I say,

It’s in the click of my heels,  

The bend of my hair,  

the palm of my hand,  

The need for my care.  

’Cause I’m a woman

Phenomenally.

Phenomenal woman,

That’s me.

- Maya Angelou

Bruce Davidson, Brooklyn Gang, 1959

Subway, Bruce Davidson

Photo by Bruce Davidson, 1959

parkerfitzgerald:

East 100th Street in NYC, 1966 photographed by Bruce Davidson

attropin:

Chicago, Illinois, 1963

byBruce Davidson