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Series Title: Brooklyn Gang

Untitled

1959

Bruce Davidson

(American, b. 1933)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Paper: 13.9 x 17.6 cm (5 1/2 x 6 15/16 in.); Image: 11.4 x 16.9 cm (4 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.716
Copyright
© Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

One of Davidson’s best-known series, Brooklyn Gang was inspired by a news story he read about a teenage gang called the Jokers.

Description

The Jokers roughhoused and fought among themselves but were not allowed to hurt each other. Real violence was reserved for those in other gangs or occasionally for civilians. “Did we fight with chains and pipes and knives? Yeah,” gang member Bob Powers reminisced years later. “Did people get stabbed? Yeah, people got stabbed. And people got their heads cracked open with bats.”

Untitled

1959

Bruce Davidson

(American, b. 1933)
America

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