Préface de Henry Geldzhaler et 56 illustrations photographiques en couleurs choisies parmi plusieurs milliers de clichés réalisés par le photographe entre 1980 et 1985.

From the moving train above ground, we see glimpses of the city, and as the trains move into the tunnels, sterile fluorescent light reaches into the stony gloom, and we, trapped inside, all hang on together. I began to imagine that these signatures surrounding the passengers were ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.Both a captivating study of light and color and a historical document of an elemental part of New York, Subway captures the many faces of the underbelly of this city. The brilliant flash, combined with fluorescent lighting, intense colors and Davidson's probing vision, produced images that are dramatic and at times surreal. Still, within it, the photographer communicates an increasingly widespread sense of solidarity between the inhabitants of the subterranean – there is harmony within the underground malaise. Existing beneath a city defined by its diversity and promise of opportunity, the subway appears as a microcosm of this sprawling urban metropolis: a democratizing realm where individuals from all walks of life sit side by side in a setting as frantic and unruly as the streets above.

Só nao ganhou cinco estrelas porque tem algumas fotos que são "normais", e poderiam ter ficado tranquilamente de fora da obra.He had an obsessive relationship with photography, writing about his life in his early 20s in his Greenwich Village apartment, “I had a red light in the fridge so I could eat cold chicken and print pictures at the same time. Dustjacket wonderful fresh with slightest trace of use, but with no tears, no missing parts and no remarkable flaws or defects. This edition adds forty unseen images to the original book, and includes a new introduction by Arthur Ollman of the Museum of Photographic Art in San Diego, and a foreword by Fred Braithwaite (aka Fab Five Freddy), the original graffiti artist.

With renovations beginning on the subway during the eighties, today the transit system is in some ways unrecognizable. He spent five years photographing the civil rights movement in America, following a group of freedom riders in the south (in 1961) through dangerous situations. Instead, his choice presents viewers with a realm where dirt, fashion, graffiti, and blood appear with striking power to comprehensively demonstrate the intricacy micro-society that, in this case, was the subway. Essentially, Davidson s images manage to hark back to a forgotten New York City, while simultaneously tapping into a contemporary sense of why New York, with all is attitudes, is still seen to be one of the globe s most vibrant and happening urban cities.This work was published by Harvard University Press in 1970 under the title East 100th Street and was later republished and expanded by St. Subway photography embodies an American classic, colorful, dark, and compelling epitome of America’s underground society as depicted through the imagery.