Bruce Davidson Signed "Waitress, Topless Restaurant, 1965" Gelatin Silver Print Photograph

BRUCE DAVIDSON
"Waitress, Topless Restaurant, 1965"
Silver Gelatin Print Photograph

SIGNED BY BRUCE DAVIDSON on back

Comes with a Charles Scott Gallery Certificate of Authenticity

NOTE: black-outs are not on image, contact us to receive digital image of full photograph

Gelatin silver print, printed later
12-1/4 x 8 inches (31.1 x 20.3 cm) (image)
14 x 11 inches (sheet)
Signed and negative notation 65-45-5/34A in pencil, verso.

Condition: Neutral toned print on semi-gloss, double-weight paper with margins. In excellent condition. Sold unmatted and unframed.

LITERATURE:
B. Davidson, Bruce Davidson Photographs, Agrinde/Summit Books, New York, 1978, p. 114.
PROVENANCE: 
Photographs by Bruce Davidson, Sold without Reserve to Benefit the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency Heritage Signature® Auction #8242

From Bruce Davidson: "In late 1965 Esquire sent me to a "topless" restaurant in San Francisco. The editors wanted pictures of an entertainer who had large breasts. I stood in the audience and saw the passive look of women on small stage platforms swaying their naked bodies to loud music. I went into the kitchen where a young waitress, with stretch marks from a child she had borne, carried platters of food to vacant-faced businessmen on their lunch hour. The true subject of these photographs was not their naked bodies but their endless aloneness."    

About Bruce Davidson - The longevity of Bruce Davidson's practice, and its impact, is demonstrated in his having work featured in, or being the subject of, fourteen exhibitions over fifty years at a single major institution, the Museum of Modern Art in New York.  In addition he's won everything from a Guggenheim to a Royal Photographic Society Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship.  He's in the Library of Congress, LACMA, The Met and more.

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