id: 317434
accession number: 2018.685
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.685
updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:19.366000
Brooklyn Gang: Untitled (51205), 1959. Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933). Gelatin silver print; paper: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.685 © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
title: Untitled (51205)
title in original language:
series: Brooklyn Gang
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creation date: 1959
creation date earliest: 1959
creation date latest: 1959
current location:
creditline: Gift of an anonymous donor
copyright: © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos
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culture: America
technique: gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1951-Present
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933) - artist
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measurements: Paper: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Bruce Davidson: Brooklyn Gang
opening date: 2020-10-25T04:00:00
Bruce Davidson: Brooklyn Gang. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 25, 2020-June 13, 2021).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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fun fact:
One of Davidson’s best-known series, Brooklyn Gang was inspired by a news story about a teenage gang named the Jokers.
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Shown here on the Coney Island boardwalk, from left to right, are gang members Junior Rice, Bob Powers, and Lefty, who “was a pretty tough guy in the gang and then he went to jail for about a year,” according to Powers. “He came out and he just lost it. He wasn’t the same guy. Something happened and nobody knew what. . . . We protected him a bit, but he caught a couple of bad beatings and lost his reputation. He ate a lot of pills one night and never woke up. His mother found him dead. OD’d in bed at 19. He was the first in the group to die from a drug overdose.”
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