Fascinating Black and White Photos That Capture Everyday Life of the United States From Between the 1950s and 1960s

   

Born 1933 in Oak Park, Illinois, American photographer Bruce Davidson has been a member of the Magnum Photos agency since 1958. His photographs, notably those taken in Harlem, New York City, have been widely exhibited and published. He is known for photographing communities usually hostile to outsiders.

These fascinating photos that Davidson documented everyday life of the U.S from between the 1950s and 1960s.

 
Brooklyn gang, NYC, 1959

 

Yale football, New Haven, Connecticut, 1954

 

Dancing at the Paladium Savoy, NYC, 1958

 

Brooklyn gang, Coney Island, NYC, 1959

 

Brooklyn gang, NYC, 1959

 

Brooklyn gang, NYC, 1959

 

 
Brooklyn gang, NYC, 1959

 

Brooklyn gang, NYC, 1959

 

Brooklyn gang, NYC, 1959

 

Brooklyn gang, NYC, 1959

 

Brooklyn gang, NYC, 1959

 

Brooklyn gang, NYC, 1959

 

Brooklyn gang, NYC, 1959

 

Girl with eyes closed dancing with boy, from Brooklyn gang, NYC, 1959

 

Under the boardwalk at Coney Island, 1959

 

American actress Marilyn Monroe on the set of 'The Misfits', a film by John Huston, Nevada, 1960

 

Central Park, NYC, 1960

 

Central Park, NYC, 1960

 

 Director John Huston and Marilyn Monroe during the filming of 'The Misfits', Reno, Nevada, 1960

 

Freedom Riders on stop during bus trip from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi, 1960

 

Yves Montand, his wife Simone Signoret, Marilyn Monroe and her husband Arthur Miller at the Beverly Hills Hotel, California, 1960

 

Blues bar in Chicago's South Side, 1962

 

Graduation Day in Riverside Park, NYC, 1962

 

Harlem, NYC, 1962

 

NAACP convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1962

 

New York City, 1962

 

Woman sitting in booth, NYC, 1962

 

 Chicago, Illinois, 1963

 

 Chicago, Illinois, 1963

 

 Chicago, Illinois, 1963

 

 Malcolm X rally in Harlem, NYC, 1963

 

Playboy club, 1963

 

Los Angeles, 1964

 

Man dragged away by his feet during a CORE demonstration, NYC, 1964

 

Diana Ross at the Apollo Theatre, NYC, 1965

 

 
Diana Ross, 1965

 

 
Man leering at woman in topless restaurant, California, 1965

 

One-room schoolhouse near Selma, Alabama, 1965

 

Sammy Davis Jr., NYC, 1965

 

Sammy Davis Jr., NYC, 1965

 

 
Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni during the making of 'Zabriskie Point', California, 1968