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    Bruce Davidson

    Jul 30, 2019 2 minutes

    Bruce Davidson is one of the key figures to study if you have even a mild interest in documentary photography. Davidson understands that photography exists to inform and educate – to bring together disparate communities and reveal the common ground. It’s this that makes his, in which he spent two years during the 1960s documenting a single block in East Harlem, one of the most vital examples of the empathic power of photography.

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