Bruce Davidson's "Circus"

An era of entertainment ends in three installments

Bruce Davidson was probably always going to be a photographer. At age ten, his mother built him a dark room in their suburban basement. For his bar mitzva,h he was gifted a camera. A photograph of an owl won him a national award for high school photographers. At Yale, Joseph Albers (a monumental teacher of art) told him his work was too sentimental. The…