Education
Yale University
Rochester Institute of Technology
Awards
Gold Medal Visual Arts Award, National Arts Club, 2007
Lucie Award, Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Photography, 2004
Open Society Institute, Individual Fellowship, 1998
National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1982
First Prize in Fiction, American Film Festival (Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko's Beard), 1973
Critics' Award, American Film Festival (Living Off the Land), 1963
National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Photography, 1967
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1961
First Prize, Kodak National High School Competition, Animal Division, 1949
Selected Exhibitions
2009
Five Decades, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery,New York
East 100th Street, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
Central Park, Sony World Photography Awards, Cannes,France
2008
Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956–1968, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Bruce Davidson, Jackson Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
2007
Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side, Jewish Museum, New York
Central Park, PhotoEspaña, Fundación Astroc, Madrid
The Nature of Paris, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961–1965 and East 100th Street, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
2006
Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961–1965, Aperture Foundation, New York 100th
Subway, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Bruce Davidson, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Canada
On the Street, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Bruce Davidson, Atlas Gallery, London
2005
Subway, Gallery Lumière, Seoul, South Korea
Subway, Museum of the City of New York, New York
Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Lower East Side, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Subway, Hermès Gallery, New York
2004
Subway, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
2003
East 100th Street 1966–1968, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington
Inside, Outside, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs 1961–1965
International Center of Photography, New York, and Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, California Images from the Inside, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1998–99
Brooklyn Gang, International Center of Photography, New York
1995–96
Bruce Davidson, Parco Gallery, Tokyo
1988
East 100th Street, The Cafeteria, and Subway, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1983
Subway, Musée Réattu, Arles, France
Subway, Galerie Municipale du Château-d'Eau, Toulouse, France
1982
Subway, International Center of Photography, New York,
1979
Bruce Davidson Photographs, International Center of Photography, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Galerie Delpire, Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris
1970
East 100th Street, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966
Bruce Davidson, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
Photographs by Bruce Davidson, Art Institute of Chicago
Collections
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
Huntington Library, San Marino, California
International Center of Photography, New York
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris
Masur Museum, Monroe, Louisiana
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of the City of New York
Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Canada, Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Ottawa
New-York Historical Society, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Wilson Centre for Photography, London
Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Films
Living Off the Land, 1968
Zoo Doctor, 1971
Isaac Singer's Nightmare and Mrs. Pupko's Beard, 1972
Books
Circus, Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2007
England / Scotland 1960, Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2005
Isaac Singer and the Lower East Side, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2004
Subway, St. Ann's Press, Los Angeles, 2003
East 100th Street, St. Ann's Press, Los Angeles, 2003
Time of Change, Civil Rights Photographs 1961-1965, St. Ann's Press, Los Angeles, 2002
Portraits, Aperture, New York, 1999
Brooklyn Gang, Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1998
Central Park, Aperture, New York, 1995
Photo Poche, Éditions Nathan, Paris, 1997
Bruce Davidson (Photofile), Thames & Hudson, London, 1990
Subway, Aperture, New York, 1986
Bruce Davidson, Pantheon Books, New York; Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris, 1986
Bruce Davidson Photographs, Agrinde Publications, Simon & Schuster, New York; (Bruce Davidson Photographs), Le Chêne, France, 1978
Subsistence U.S.A., Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1973
East 100th Street, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1970
The Bridge, Harper & Row, New York, 1964