id: 317482 accession number: 2018.732 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.732 updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:19.635000 Brooklyn Gang: Untitled (40065), 1959. Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933). Gelatin silver print; paper: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.732 © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos title: Untitled (40065) 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: 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 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: Childhood pastimes like playing yo-yo were a thing of the distant past for 15-year-old Bob Powers, a Joker seen here leaning against a fixture in Helen’s Candy Store. He had already been in and out of the court system numerous times by 1959. Powers stabbed someone when he was 12 and had been incarcerated for bringing zip guns (homemade firearms) and chains to school, where, Powers said, he was voted “most likely to die before I was 21 years old.” wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES