Bruce Davidson (b.1933)

GIRL HOLDING KITTEN ON LONDON STREET, 1960. Iris print, printed later, image size 500 X 340mm, signed and numbered 13/200 by the photographer in pencil in lower right margin. Mounted and framed, frame size 935 x 765mm.

In an interview with The Royal Photographic Society Journal in 2021, American photographer Bruce Davidson shared the story behind one of his most famous photographs taken in the UK, which he made in 1960. At that point, the young photographer was touring around England in a Hillman Minx convertible when he happened on this young girl and her sister in London. Davidson told Rachel Segal Hamilton, “Her name was Carol, and I didn’t really talk to her much at the time but a few months ago her sister Christine, who appears with her in another image from the same set, got in touch with my studio,” he explains. “Some people who see the picture assume Carol is a runaway because she’s carrying a sleeping bag, but she and her sister had been hitchhiking around the Lake District, winding up in London for a concert."

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