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Series Title: Brooklyn Gang

Untitled (40045)

1959

Bruce Davidson

(American, b. 1933)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Paper: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.734
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 gang feud.

Description

Davidson contacted the Jokers, one of Brooklyn’s roughest gangs, through their social worker. In the summer of 1959, Davidson roamed the streets of New York with these teens, loitered in stores that the Jokers called their own, and sunbathed with them on the beach at Coney Island. Eventually they allowed him to photograph even their most intimate, private moments. He responded by producing unflinchingly honest images of these American youths.
A horizontally oriented black-and-white photograph depicts four people with light skin tones in the back of a vehicle. On our left, a woman rests her head on a man. On our right, a woman in a light headscarf and a man share a kiss. A dark horizontal panel dominates the upper half. Below it, a narrow window reveals a high-contrast view of distant buildings and a street.

Untitled (40045)

1959

Bruce Davidson

(American, b. 1933)
America

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