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A black and white photograph of a blonde woman with her back to the camera in a floral printed …
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A black and white photograph of a blonde woman with her back to the camera in a floral printed …
A black and white photograph of a blonde woman with her back to the camera in a floral printed skirt and backless top walking past a hasidic Jew wearing a bowler hat, long dark coat, glasses and a beard.
Untitled, New York - Lower East Side series, Bruce Davidson, 1990, resin-coated print, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, © Bruce Davidson 1990.

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Artist (American, born 1933)
Date1990
Mediumresin-coated print
DimensionsImage: 13 1/2 × 9 inches (34.3 × 22.9 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 11 inches (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Matted: 20 × 16 inches (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Portfolio/Series"New York - Lower East Side" series
MarkingsBlack stamp on the back bottom right corner: "© Bruce Davidson / Magnum Photos, Inc."
Credit LineGift of an anonymous donor.
Object number2018.16.249
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Copyright© Bruce Davidson. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextIn 1973, Davidson took photographs inside the Garden Cafeteria on the Lower East Side, where he met Holocaust survivors who had fled to New York after World War II. He listened to their stories and brought their lives to the forefront through close-up, intimate portraits. He used a handheld strobe to spotlight his subjects against a background of darkness. His later photographs from 1990 capture a world in transition. While some images remain firmly planted in tradition, such as the scribe repairing fading Hebrew characters on Torah scrolls, others reveal the contrasts between changing communities as an Orthodox man walks past a young woman in a backless dress.
Subject MatterNew York City, New York, United States of America
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