Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933). Youth, Brooklyn Gang, 1959. Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1959

Description

Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933)
Youth, Brooklyn Gang, 1959
Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1959
9 x 13-1/4 inches (22.9 x 33.7 cm) (image)
11 x 14 inches (sheet)
Signed by the artist, titled, negative notation 59-7-121/72-73 in an unknown hand in pencil, various Davidson/Magnum Photos copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps and affixed caption labels, verso.



Davidson's 1959 series Brooklyn Gang was the result of several months spent photographing the daily lives of the Jokers, one of the many teenage street gangs worrying New York City officials at the time.

Davidson's subjects were mostly Catholic school students or dropouts. "I was 26 and they were 15, but I could see my own repression in them and I began to feel a connection to their desperation. I began to feel their isolation and even my own."


Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000.

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