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Series Title: Brooklyn Gang

Untitled (41640)

1959

Bruce Davidson

(American, b. 1933)
Culture
America
Medium
gelatin silver print on resin-coated paper
Measurements
Paper: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.747
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 about a fight involving a teenage gang called the Jokers.

Description

“The hole,” a space 3½ feet wide by 30 feet long between two buildings, was one of the places where the Jokers went to drink beer, smoke pot, and occasionally pop a pill. “We used to have the big guys buy full quarts of beer,” remembered Bob Powers. “Then we’d go down in the hole, open one at a time, and pass it around until they were empty.” A pipe six feet above the bottom of the hole “was like our ‘high bar,’” recalled Powers. “We’d all do tricks and flips on this thing.”
A vertically oriented black-and-white photograph depicts three people with light and dark skin tones in a high-contrast alleyway. At the top left, a person leans over a dark, silhouetted ledge. In the center, a man with light skin peers over a diagonal structure. At the lower right, a man with a dark skin tone crouches near a brick wall, mouth open and arms extended. A pipe crosses the bright center.

Untitled (41640)

1959

Bruce Davidson

(American, b. 1933)
America

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