"What you call a Ghetto, I call my home"
DAVIDSON, Bruce. East 100th Street. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1970.
4to. White paper wrappers with black lettering and illustrated with black and white photograph; 123 full-page photographic illustrations; unpagenated; minimal scuffing to top of spine with slight creasing; particularly book's backstrip but binding coming loose and especially fragile; marginal toning to top of pages but otherwise internally clean; very good.
First paperback edition.
"I entered a lifestyle, and, like the people on the block, I love and hate it and keep going back" writes Bruce Davidson in his introduction.
Arguably the first work of photojournalism to be produced as an art book, this is also the legendary American photographer's first published work. The result of devoted years documenting one poverty-stricken city block in East Harlem, it remains an icon of American photography. Prior to the work's publication, Davidson received a Guggenheim Fellowship in order to photograph the events of the civil rights movement, and also received the first photography grant to be awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1967. Subsequently, he would spend the next two years with the characters of East 100th Street. As the great Henri-Carter Bresson would write, "he has created a meaningful and poignant essay on the people".
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