The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 6, 2024
Untitled
1959
(American, b. 1933)
Image: 21.9 x 14.6 cm (8 5/8 x 5 3/4 in.); Paper: 25.1 x 20.2 cm (9 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.692
© Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
Location: not on view
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.- Bruce Davidson: Brooklyn Gang. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 25, 2020-June 13, 2021).
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