Fine Print: Jimmy Armstrong at Clyde Beatty Circus, New Jersey, USA, 1958 Bruce Davidson Prints researched by Meiselas and presented

researched by Meiselas and presented in conjunction with the Nederlands Foto Instituut as part of the Photoworks-in-Progress series “Constructing Identity”

all these elements come to life

Still surrounded by the animals and rural settings of their childhood

but he has sewn these photographs into a work of fiction or fantasy – a structure

Surrealism

Fine Print: Jimmy Armstrong at Clyde Beatty Circus, New Jersey, USA, 1958 Bruce Davidson Prints researched by Meiselas and presentedBruce Davidson was 24 when he visited the Clyde Beatty Circus at Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey in 1958. The photographs he took there would go on to form the first part of one of his most celebrated bodies of work: Circus, a black and white visual chronicle of mid century big tops in America as the cultural phenomenon was beginning to die out. None of the circus performers that Davidson encountered had a more profound effect on him than Jimmy