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This volume presents Bruce Davidson´s personal selections from his lesser-known color archive. Ranging from a period of fifty-six years and counting, these images are representative of the photographer´s color career. Assignments from various magazines (Vogue, National Geographic, Life magazine) and commercial projects led him to photograph fashion (early 1960s), the Shah of Iran with his family (1964), keepers of French monuments (1988), the supermodel Kylie Bax (1997), and college cheerleaders (1989). He photographed in India and China, but also at home in New York, in Chicago, and along the Pacific Coast Highway. In 1968, Michelangelo Antonioni invited him to document the making of his film Zabriskie Point. Davidson also continued to pursue personal projects, e.g. photographing the Yiddish writer and Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer (1972-75), the New York City subway (1980), and Katz´s Delicatessen (2004). Often staying on in a country after an official assignment, he documented Welsh coalfields, family holidays in Martha´s Vineyard, and travelled through Patagonia and Mexico.

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Born in 1933, Bruce Davidson began photographing at the age of ten in Oak Park, Illinois. Davidson studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University before being drafted into the army. After leaving military service in 1957, he freelanced for
Life and in 1958 became a member of Magnum Photos. Davidson´s work is held in many major museum collections and his awards include a Guggenheim fellowship (1962) and the first
National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Photography (1967). In 2011 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in Fine Arts from the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Steidl has published Davidson´s Circus (2007), Outside Inside (2010), Subway (2011), and Black & White (2012).

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