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Untitled (50583)
Brooklyn Gang
Untitled (50583)
1959
Bruce Davidson
(American, b. 1933)
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.705
© Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
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One of Davidson’s best-known series, Brooklyn Gang was inspired by a news story he read about a teenage gang.
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Gang membership was exclusively male, but the members’ girlfriends appear frequently in Davidson’s photographs. Some of the pictures depict the teenagers exploring lust and love and the boys struggling to define and prove their masculinity. Looking back at the series in 1998, Davidson said that he felt “the reason that body of work has survived is that it’s about emotion. That kind of mood and tension and sexual vitality, that’s what those pictures were really about.”
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