id:			317488
accession number:	2018.738
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.738
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:19.665000

Brooklyn Gang: Untitled (40038), 1959. Bruce Davidson (American, b. 1933). Gelatin silver print; paper: 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of an anonymous donor 2018.738 © Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos

title:				Untitled (40038)
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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: 35.6 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Bruce Davidson: Brooklyn Gang
	opening date:   2020-10-25T04:00:00
	<i>Bruce Davidson: Brooklyn Gang</i>. 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:
Bruce Davidson’s series <em>Brooklyn Gang</em> was inspired by a newspaper story about a violent rumble involving a teenage gang, the Jokers.

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Petey, a Jokers member who looks out the second-story window here, was injured in that fight. Petey's best friend, fellow Jokers member Bob Powers, walks by the house. Housing in the gang's neighborhood, the then-impoverished Park Slope, Brooklyn, was overcrowded and rundown. Powers lived with his seven siblings and alcoholic parents in a three-bedroom apartment that had a coal-powered cookstove and no hot water or central heating.

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