Circus Edition:Unsigned Burri captures the extraordinary colors

Burri captures the extraordinary colors of a room at an abandoned hotel in Beirut

Thank you for having taken me for what I am and as one of yours

depression

like Los Angeles itself

the rural area where he grew up

Circus Edition:Unsigned Burri captures the extraordinary colorsOne of the world's most influential photographers, Bruce Davidson, takes readers inside three midcentury big tops in images that are poetic, realistic and profound. He reveals not only the swiftly vanishing cultural phenomenon of the circus, but what might be called the eternal human circus. At a three ring show in 1958 he climbed to the top of the tent to view the performances of the famous liontamer Clyde Beatty and human cannonball Hugo Zacchini.