“I’m an Outsider on the Inside”: An Interview with Bruce Davidson | The New Yorker

“I’m an Outsider on the Inside”: An Interview with Bruce Davidson

The photographer, who has specialized in documenting people at society’s fringe, reflects on his long and remarkable career, which is the subject of an exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery.

via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/im-an-outsider-on-the-inside-an-interview-with-bruce-davidson

The photographer Bruce Davidson, who is eighty-five years old, has lived with his wife, Emily, in a rambling apartment on the Upper West Side for the past five decades. It is appointed with broken-in chairs and couches, an impressive folk-art collection, and has an extra bedroom, to accommodate visits from their four grandchildren. A bathroom has been transformed into a darkroom, complete with a custom-made Leitz enlarger and a fibre print washer installed in the claw-foot tub. An archive of Davidson’s prints and negatives are housed throughout the apartment in floor-to-ceiling shelving.