
Collection Online as of June 30, 2022
(American, b. 1933)
Gelatin silver print
Image: 20.2 x 30.4 cm (7 15/16 x 11 15/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 x 35.3 cm (10 15/16 x 13 7/8 in.)
Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.1044
© Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
not on view
Stationed in a photo lab outside Paris while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, the twenty-two-year-old Davidson began photographing the aged widow of Impressionist painter Léon Fauché. In a methodical dedication that would later become typical of Davidson’s working style, he visited Madame Margaret Fauché daily for months, photographing every aspect of her life.