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Untitled (52637)
Brooklyn Gang
Untitled (52637)
1959
Bruce Davidson
(American, b. 1933)
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.)
Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.715
© Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
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One of Davidson’s best-known series, Brooklyn Gang was inspired by a news story he read about a teenage gang called the Jokers.
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“We used to hang out in [Brooklyn’s] Prospect Park all the time,” recalled Jokers member Bob Powers. “We did a lot of drinking and sleeping overnight in the park. . . . The cops with their bats would push us along, tell us to move. We were very defiant. If we moved, we moved ten feet. Then they had to tell us to move another ten feet. We’d kind of like move around in a circle and come back to where we originally started. The cops were mean at that time, but then we weren’t the best of kids either.”
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