id: 317465 accession number: 2018.715 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.715 updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:19.541000 Brooklyn Gang: Untitled (52637), 1959. Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933). Gelatin silver print; paper: 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.715 © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos title: Untitled (52637) title in original language: series: Brooklyn Gang series in original language: creation date: 1959 creation date earliest: 1959 creation date latest: 1959 current location: creditline: Gift of an anonymous donor copyright: © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos --- culture: America technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933) - artist --- measurements: Paper: 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: One of Davidson’s best-known series, Brooklyn Gang was inspired by a news story he read about a teenage gang called the Jokers. digital description: “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.” wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES