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East 100th Street

The exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery, entitled East 100th Street, The MoMA Show as Curated by John Szarkowski in 1970, is a re-creation of The Museum of Modern Art's groundbreaking 1970 exhibition of forty-two photographs by the highly regarded Bruce Davidson. The photographs in the exhibition are the actual prints, presented in the exact manner in which they were shown at MoMA in 1970.

Davidson's East 100th Street constitutes a significant social document. During 1967 and 1968, Davidson photographed on a New York block that in the 1950's had the reputation of being one of the worst in the city. He was first attracted to the area because of the work of the Metro North Association, a committee of residents that were actively involved in trying to improve their neighborhood.  Through this association and with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Davidson gained access to the people on the block.  About this work Szarkowski wrote, "He has shown us true and specific people, photographed in these private moments of suspended action in which the complexity and ambiguity of individual lives triumph over abstraction." In appreciation for their cooperation, Davidson gave prints of his photographs to hundreds of residents of the block. Many of these people attended the opening of the exhibition at the museum.

Howard Greenberg Gallery and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery are pleased to announce simultaneous exhibitions of the photographs of Bruce Davidson. View the exhibition Bruce Davidson: Five Decades at the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.

Both galleries are also celebrating the Steidl publication of the three volume opus entitled Outside/Inside containing over 800 photographs that span Davidson's entire career.

Also on exhibit at the Howard Greenberg Gallery will be the recently published limited edition portfolio entitled Bruce Davidson: Central Park in Platinum. The fourteen images in the portfolio were made during many of Davidson's explorations of the park that began in 1991 and continue to this day.