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Series Title: Brooklyn Gang

Untitled

1959

Bruce Davidson

(American, b. 1933)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 16 x 23.9 cm (6 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.); Paper: 20.3 x 25.2 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.719
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

This rooftop view in Park Slope, Brooklyn, was taken from a building in the gang’s “turf,” which was a block anchored by the intersection of 17th Street and 8th Avenue. Davidson spent the summer hanging out with the gang and photographing them. Describing his process, the artist said, “I stay a long time. . . . I am an outsider on the inside.” Park Slope, now one of New York’s most desirable neighborhoods, was then a poor, mostly Irish area.
A horizontally oriented black-and-white photograph depicts a view across urban rooftops toward a skyline on the horizon. The dark foreground is cast largely in shadow, showing flat roofs and chimneys. Multi-story brick buildings with rows of arched windows line the right side of the frame. In the distance, tall skyscrapers rise from a thick layer of haze beneath a pale, uniform sky.

Untitled

1959

Bruce Davidson

(American, b. 1933)
America

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