Bruce Davidson, born 1933, American, The North, 1960
- Title:
- The North
- Additional Title(s):
- A Lake, the North
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1960
- Materials & Techniques:
- Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, semigloss photographic paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm), Image: 8 5/8 × 12 7/8 inches (21.9 × 32.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed on verso in graphite, upper center: "Bruce Davidson"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ralph and Nancy Segall
- Copyright Status:
- © The Artist
- Accession Number:
- B2014.1.1
- Classification:
- Photographs
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- clouds | ferns | lake | landscape | reflection | river | storm
- Associated Places:
- England | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:59284
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Bruce Davidson made his name in the late 1950s with photographs of Brooklyn’s notorious street gangs. Seeking a retreat and change of pace, he crossed the Atlantic on an assignment for the magazine the Queen. He spent two months touring Britain in a Hillman Minx convertible and photographing the places and people of Britain, publishing his book England/Scotland in 1960. Davidson’s urban photographs captured a nation in decline and still emerging from postwar privation. But he also photographed the landscapes, including this image of a lake with the cloudy sky reflected in the water, an homage perhaps to the great British landscape photographers of the nineteenth century. Gallery label for A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
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