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Bruce Davidson / Paul Caponigro : two American photographers in Britain and Ireland / Jennifer A. Watts and Scott Wilcox

Catalog Data

Photographer:
Davidson, Bruce 1933-  Search this
Caponigro, Paul 1932-  Search this
Exhibition curator:
Watts, Jennifer A.  Search this
Author:
Wilcox, Scott 1952-  Search this
Exhibiting institution:
Yale Center for British Art  Search this
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery  Search this
Subject:
Davidson, Bruce 1933-  Search this
Caponigro, Paul 1932-  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 220 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Type:
Biography
Catalogues raisonneĢs
Place:
United States
Great Britain
Ireland
Date:
2014
Notes:
Catalogue of the exhibition on view at the Yale Center for British Art from June 26, 2014 to September 14, 2014 and at The Huntington Library , Art Collections and Botanical Gardens from November 8, 2014 to March 9, 2015
Contents:
Observation and vision : a British context / Scott Wilcox -- Strangers in a strange land / Jennifer A. Watts -- Gallery -- Checklist
Summary:
"Bruce Davidson (b. 1933) and Paul Caponigro (b. 1932) are two of the greatest American photographers of their generation. Working in different traditions, and exhibiting fundamentally distinct approaches, they are both brilliant observers whose art inspires and provokes. This book, the first to pair the two, examines the work they produced during visits to Britain and Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s. The gritty sensibility that made Bruce Davidson's series Brooklyn Gang such a sensation was unmistakable as he trained his camera on the gamut of British society, travelling from London to Scotland and later to the mining region of Wales. Paul Caponigro, steeped in a formalist black-and-white landscape tradition, made expressive portraits of prehistoric stone circles, dolmens, and ancient Irish churches in the landscape. Bruce Davidson/Paul Caponigro brings the work of these artists together into a dramatic visual dialogue. "-- Provided by publisher.
Topic:
Photographers  Search this
Travel photography  Search this
Landscape photography  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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