South Wales
1967
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 19.4 x 24.5 cm (7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.) mount: 27.9 x 35.5 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2001.67.65
About the Artist
Bruce Davidson
Bruce Davidson, born on September 5, 1933, in Oak Park, Illinois, to a Jewish family of Polish origins, discovered photography at age ten when his mother built him a darkroom in their basement.) A Kodak competition win at 16 fueled his passion, leading him to work as a stock boy at a local camera shop. He studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology starting in 1951 under Ralph Hattersley, hon...