During Bruce Davidson’s two-year span of being on East 100th Street in Harlem, while taking photos seen in the collection he slowly became close with those he photographed through the method of his photography. Bruce used a 16mm camera, quite a "clunky" camera to have to carry around all day. However Bruce did this on purpose, he had no problem with being seen taking pictures and preferred people know that he was taking one of them. He wanted to be in a sense, personal with those he was taking photos of, Bruce stated that "I didn't want to be the unobserved observer. I wanted to be with my subjects face to face." This collection of photojournalism took Bruce two years to print, many of the pictures were taken in 1966, with his project being completed in 1968 but none of the pictures were published until 1970. Davidson would have been there for a lot of the riots and protests throughout the rest of the city. Bruce, like the protesters, was there to install change in the city by taking photos, he was primarily focused on the improvement of the housing situation as many pictures of his suggest. Photos of crumbling houses and unkempt streets were very common in Davidson’s work.