Subway
1980, printed 2006
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View on museum website →Medium
portfolio of 47 dye imbibition prints
Dimensions
image (each): 38.1 × 56.52 cm (15 × 22 1/4 in.) sheet (each): 50.8 × 60.64 cm (20 × 23 7/8 in.) portfolio: 54.61 × 65.41 × 5.72 cm (21 1/2 × 25 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Michael and Jane Wilson
Accession Number
2012.137.32-78
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...