Subway

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“Go back into the subway and look beyond the graffiti. Lift up your heads and look around, see what Bruce has revealed – the beauty in the subway population, the enormous amount of colour below and above ground, the varieties and pleasures to be seen from the subway. The shrill insistence of the noise in our ears and of the graffiti to our eyes does not end the catalogue of effects the subway has on our senses. Bruce Davidson has reopened and rewritten that catalogue with this magnificent series of photographs. Light, colour, humanity, affection, and hope can be added to our impressions of the New York subway system.” In 1980, Bruce Davidson began capturing the New York subway, immersing himself in this vibrant yet sometimes perilous environment. Initially working in black and white, he soon recognized the necessity of color to convey the vividness of this graffiti-laden world. This updated edition features new scans of Davidson’s Kodachrome slides and includes additional images. Born in 1933, Davidson started photographing at age ten and later studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University before serving in the army. After his military service, he freelanced for LIFE and joined Magnum in 1958. His accolades include a Guggenheim fellowship and the first National Endowment for the Arts in Photography. Steidl has also published his works, including England / Scotland 1960, Circus, and Outside Inside.