For two years in the 1960s, Bruce Davidson photographed one block in East Harlem. He went back day after day, standing on sidewalks, knocking on doors, asking permission to photograph a face, a child, a room, a family. Through his skill, his extraordinary vision, and his deep respect for his subjects, Davidson's portrait of the people of East 100th Street is a powerful statement of the dignity and humanity that is in all people. Long out of print, this volume is a reissue of the classic book of photographs originally published in 1970 and recently included in The Book of 101 Books. This reprint includes over 20 new images not included in the original edition.

Davidson's strobe doesn't dispel the gloom or glamorize the ruin of the apartments, alleyways, storefronts, and rubble-strewn lots where people stopped to pose for him, but the rapport he established allows those people to surrender to the camera with their humanity intact. --Vince Aletti

Like the people who live on the block, I love and hate it and I keep going back. --Bruce Davidson

Foreword by Mildred Feliciano.

Interview with Barney Simon.

Hardcover, 11 x 12 in. 172 pages,147 Tritones illustrations

Long out-of-print, this is a re-issue of the classic book of photographs of East 100th Street in New York taken in the early 1960s. Includes 25 new images that were not included in the first edition. Exquisite cloth-bound hardcover with tipped-in image and clear acetate dustcover (limited to 3,000 copies). 2003, St. Ann's Press, 12.25x11.25", 145 tri-tone plates. This St. Ann's Press first edition is now out-of-print as well. A pristine copy in the publisher's shrink wrap. ONE AVAILABLE. $99.00.