The work of an American professional photographer Bruce Davidson, whose collection of New York City subway photos are being displayed here in Korea at GalleryLumiere, a photography gallery in Southern Seoul. With one of the gallery staff members Miss Han Soo-min, who explained to us the art world of Davidson's photography.



Bruce Davidson

Bruce Davidson is a world-renowned photographer who was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1933. He attended the Rochester Institute of Technology and went on to study at Yale University.
Later he was drafted into army and stationed in Paris, where he met Henri Cartier-Bresson, a founding member of Magnum Photos. After the military, he worked for Life Magazine as a freelance photographer. He joined Magnum Photos in 1958.

Some of his major works include “The Dwarf,” a piece about a lonely clown in a traveling circus, and “Brooklyn Gang,” which depicts the isolation, tension, and vitality of New York teenagers.

With the awarding of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he documented the civil rights movement in the American South. In 1963 he opened his first solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art. Presented with the first fellowship of the NEA (National Endowment for the Arts), he undertook a project photographing inhabitants of a rundown neighborhood in Spanish Harlem in New York. This modern classic work was exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art in 1970.



Soomin Han

Soomin Han works at the GalleriaLumiere as assistant curator.