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Bruce Davidson Paul Caponigro: Two American Photographers in Britain and Ireland
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Bruce Davidson (b. 1933), London, 1960, gelatin silver print. © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos, photo courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Paul Caponigro (b. 1932), Running White Deer, Wicklow, Ireland, 1967, gelatin silver print, 7 1/2 × 19 1/8 in. © Paul Caponigro.
Bruce Davidson (b. 1933), London, 1960, gelatin silver print. © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos, photo courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Bruce Davidson (b. 1933), London, 1960, gelatin silver print. © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos, photo courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Bruce Davidson (b. 1933), Wales, 1965, gelatin silver print. © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos, photo courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Bruce Davidson (b. 1933), Wales, 1965, gelatin silver print. © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos, photo courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Paul Caponigro (b. 1932), Tralee Bay, Kerry, Ireland, 1977, gelatin silver print. © Paul Caponigro, photo courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Paul Caponigro (b. 1932), Glendalough, Wicklow, Ireland, 1988, gelatin silver print. © Paul Caponigro, photo courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Past eventSat., Nov. 8, 2014, 12 a.m.–Tue., March 10, 2015, 11:59 p.m.
MaryLou and George Boone Gallery
This traveling exhibition pairs for the first time 128 works by American photographers Paul Caponigro (b. 1932) and Bruce Davidson (b. 1933), enlightened observers of Britain and Ireland in the 1960s and '70s.
In its only West Coast venue, exhibition showcases exemplary work by contemporary photographers Bruce Davidson and Paul Caponigro
This traveling exhibition pairs for the first time 128 works by American photographers Paul Caponigro (b. 1932) and Bruce Davidson (b. 1933), enlightened observers of Britain and Ireland in the 1960s and ’70s. For Caponigro, Ireland and Britain became sites of creative energy to which he returned repeatedly. Davidson brought the same gritty street sensibility that had made his Brooklyn Gang series a sensation among photograph collectors. The exhibition examines the artistic, social, and historical forces informing two master photographers as they bring American eyes to enduring landscapes and changing cultural scenes.
“Paul Caponigro and Bruce Davidson are two of the most distinguished American photographers of their generation,” said Jennifer A Watts, the exhibition’s co-curator and curator of photographs at The Huntington. “This is the first exhibition to pair these influential contemporaries who followed overlapping yet distinct creative paths. Britain and Ireland are the countries to which each man embarked on significant creative journeys in the course of refining their art. How fitting, then, to bring these works to The Huntington, where we have one of the strongest collections of British art and historical materials in the country. The exhibition’s concept was both intriguing and beautifully relevant. The exhibition is also curated by Scott Wilcox, chief curator of art collections and senior curator of prints and drawings at the Yale Center for British Art.
Strangers No More
While Caponigro and Davidson are acquainted with each other’s work, the two have never met. Davidson is a photojournalist and urban street photographer; Caponigro practices a pure, formalist approach to landscape photography. Both have eschewed digital technology; they are devoted to black-and-white film and continue to make prints by hand. And both of them produced important bodies of work in Britain and Ireland beginning in 1960.
