Comments on: Bruce Davidson: Thoughts On A Lifetime With Leica

By: Gary Haigh

Gary Haigh — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 05:40:23 +0000

Inspiring interview from a great humanist photographer. Thanks for bringing it to us.

By: Ricardo Padue

Ricardo Padue — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:56:29 +0000

Hello everyone, how are you? I am a photographer living in Brazil since the beginning of my career, in 1986, only photographer with my lovely Leica M3, in my opinion, the best machine of all time until the present day, and I’m a fan of this wonderful photographer Bruce Davidson and my question is: what makes a photographer as famous as he migrate to digital photography, it will be soon, just want to make this work? It is still easy to find black and white movies. I really do not know … For me, digital photography is still far from having the same quality of an analogue photography, we all know …

By: Andrey

Andrey — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 07:46:45 +0000

This is the most inspiring interview that I read for the last year, I think.
Bruce seems to be very open and kind person. Fantastic story.

By: Murray

Murray — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 05:03:42 +0000

Mark me down as a vote for not replacing these transcripts with videos – it’s far quicker for a time challenged photographer to read the transcript than listen to a video.

By: Leica Internet Team

Leica Internet Team — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:04:21 +0000

Hi Don,

Glad you love this! Thanks for catching those – just updated the post! Appreciate the feedback!

-HT

By: Don Chow

Don Chow — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:14:17 +0000

Loved this, thanks.

A few points about the transcription: I think he said he became sensitized (not desensitized) in the South, and also that when you “enter” someone’s life, you have to live there awhile.

By: Rena Pearl

Rena Pearl — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 09:48:18 +0000

Amazing photographs. BD has an wonderful attitude of mind and humour. The interview is very inspiring, and one to READ over again. It certainly teaches that to achieve good work, there needs to be depth, and time spent on it. Thank you.

By: stefano

stefano — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 08:10:06 +0000

…talk about ‘inspiring stuff’!!

Mr. Davidson,

thank you so much for all your wonderful work and for sharing it with us,

all the best

By: Ordinal

Ordinal — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:42:06 +0000

I’d actually like to say “thank you for transcribing the interview” – personally I don’t have the time to watch interviews on video. I read text much faster than I can listen to it being spoken, and I can also read on a phone, in a noisy environment, and so on, where video is no use.

By: Zlatko

Zlatko — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:11:34 +0000

Great interview with one of the best! Thank you!

By: Jan N

Jan N — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:25:14 +0000

There’s so much to absorb here. This interview should be read several times. Something that stuck out for me was :

Q: Do you have a favorite photograph that you’ve shot?
A: My favorite shot is the one I haven’t taken yet.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 08:19:26 +0000

I’m pretty certain Davidson didn’t use a Leica for anything in the Subway book. If I remember correctly he used a Canon SLR. I like Leicas, and I love Magnum, but this commercial affiliation is starting to annoy me a little. Magnum has become so commercial I don’t know if I can believe in their photojournalistic integrity any longer. What happened to the Magnum of old? HCB must be turning in his grave…

By: Gigi Stoll

Gigi Stoll — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:13:57 +0000

Truly a genius of photography. What a vision. I could read about Bruce Davidson all day long. Thank you for the wonderful interview.

By: Martin Davey

Martin Davey — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:44:52 +0000

My whole final year University project and book ‘Going Underground’ was inspired by Bruce Davidisons ‘Subway’ and Walker Evans ‘Many are called’ The Subway book is unique to its time, awesome!

By: Leica Internet Team

Leica Internet Team — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:05:12 +0000

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the feedback – we do read all comments and take them to heart. For this particular series, we do film the interviews but so much of the interview is cut out for the short (dare I say, for the 2012 bite-size 2-4 minute) webisode that we also accompany it with text. We put a lot of time into transcribing the interview and turning it into a blog post for those who want to read everything that Bruce said, both on- and off camera. We have many more video interviews that you may also be interested in and can be viewed here: https://vimeo.com/leicacamera. I will pass along your feedback to the entire team and we’ll definitely take it into consideration as we are continuously looking for ways to improve our efforts. If you have any other suggestions, please pass them along too.

All the best,
Helen
Leica Internet Team