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Series Title: USA. NYC. Garden Cafeteria

Untitled (50180)

1973

Bruce Davidson

(American, b. 1933)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Paper: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.764
Copyright
© Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Many of the clients who frequented this restaurant on New York’s Lower East Side were Holocaust survivors.

Description

Davidson encountered the Garden Cafeteria in the early 1970s while making a film on Polish-born American author Isaac Bashevis Singer, who was a regular customer. Its clientele, mostly Jews who immigrated after World War II, appealed to Davidson because his own family were Jews who had emigrated from Poland. He spent hours with his sitters, learning their histories before empathetically clicking the shutter.
A black-and-white photograph depicts three men at a wood-grained table. On the right, an older man with a medium-light skin tone wears a dark fedora, hands clasped near a coffee cup as he stares at us. To the left, a man with a medium skin tone rests his mouth against clasped hands. In the background, a man with a light skin tone wears a cap, head resting on one hand.

Untitled (50180)

1973

Bruce Davidson

(American, b. 1933)
America

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