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Series Title: Brooklyn Gang

Untitled (40038)

1959

Bruce Davidson

(American, b. 1933)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Paper: 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.738
Copyright
© Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Bruce Davidson’s series Brooklyn Gang was inspired by a newspaper story about a violent rumble involving a teenage gang, the Jokers.

Description

Petey, a Jokers member who looks out the second-story window here, was injured in that fight. Petey's best friend, fellow Jokers member Bob Powers, walks by the house. Housing in the gang's neighborhood, the then-impoverished Park Slope, Brooklyn, was overcrowded and rundown. Powers lived with his seven siblings and alcoholic parents in a three-bedroom apartment that had a coal-powered cookstove and no hot water or central heating.
A vertically oriented black-and-white photograph depicts a building facade with horizontal stone siding. In an upper window, a youth and a white dog peer out toward us. Below, an older woman with light skin tone stands behind a glass pane, arms crossed. In the lower right foreground, a young man with swept-back hair walks past, glancing back. The vertically stacked subjects are framed by the building's rigid, textured architectural lines.

Untitled (40038)

1959

Bruce Davidson

(American, b. 1933)
America

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