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The Times has a wonderful update on a woman in a Bruce Davidson photograph that is now featured prominently in the window of Hermes on Madison Avenue (as they are featuring Davidson's photographs in their gallery) as well as in the reissued book of subway photographs by Davidson. Barbara Meyer was 28 when Davidson took her photograph at the Myrtle Avenue-Wyckoff Avenue stop. She describes discovering Davidson shooting her:
He was about this far away from getting kicked in the teeth - he was getting a little close. He said, 'It's O.K., I can explain.' He explained it wasn't that I was so fabulous looking, it was that my dress was yellow, the other lady on the platform was in red, my shoes were green. It was the color play, the lighting, the whole mélange.The rest of the article is a nice piece about living in the city for a long time, as well as riding the subways for a long time. Gothamist thinks this is what will happen with Laura Holder's photographs in 20 years. Laura mentioned that most people didn't notice her taking pictures at last month's blogger event at the Apple Store, though once a woman did notice and wanted Laura to know that.
Gothamist checked out the Bruce Davidson show at the Hermes Gallery.
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aside from the story itself, i find it striking to look at the buildings in the background and see how little they have changed.
The article is interesting and I like Bure Davidson's work, but a few of the shots in his Subway series seem staged.
Specifically, the one that you can see when you click on my name above. It's the one with someone pointing a gun at another rider's head (NYC6004 / DAB1980012 K040).
No doubt there was crime back-in-the-day, but that photo--and a few others--look too staged to be believed.
yeah- that can't be real.
That really is Biz Markie jacking another fool. Damn I miss the graffiti.
Bruce Davidson said it's real. According to him (and I should know), that's an actual undercover cop with his gun to the head of a suspected robber. Bruce had gone along with the police after he had been mugged in the subway.
I have been inspired by Laura Holder. But I am always afraid that someone might attack me when I take their picture.
i think what matt meant was that he spoke to davidson about it directly when he worked on the show. of course, 20 years later, it's pretty hard to know what was going on in that picture.
Are you kidding me!
"Gothamist thinks this is what will happen with Laura Holder's photographs in 20 years."
Are you kidding - please say you're joking. Davidson works so hard to get those shots. Comparing Laura Holder to him is RIDICULOUS. No offense to Laura -keep working. Maybe the point you were trying to make was that if Laura Holder kept taking photos for 20 years straight one of her shots might resemble Davidson's.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to sound like I was bragging. The "(and I should know)" was really a joke about Bruce Davidson can go for hours about his photos.
Laura Holder's photos so could be the next "Subway" series. No one thought that Bruce Davidson's work would take off like it did. This was something that no one had tried.