Sitting in the library of his Manhattan home, photographer Bruce Davidson, now 86, joyously recalls a two-month trip to the United Kingdom on assignment for Queenmagazine in the 1960s. “They gave me carte blanche because Cornell Capa told them, ‘If you want to get a beautiful set of pictures, let him take off. You will be surprised.’ And that’s what I did,” Davidson says.
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That autumn, Davidson crossed the nation, visiting London, the south coast and Scotland to create a portrait of Britain as it was finally beginning to recover from the traumas of war and decades of austerity. In his travels, Davidson found areas of the country that had remained untouched since the 1930s, which stood in profound contrast to a newly emerging teenage culture that would soon take the globe by storm.
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