Bruce DavidsonAmerican, 1933A Brooklyn Gang in a Bar
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “A Brooklyn Gang in a Bar” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Bruce Davidson followed the ‘Jokers’, a teen gang in Brooklyn, day and night for an entire month. He photographed them hanging out on the street or at the beach on Coney Island, or while they showed each other their battle wounds in a bar. Davidson, in his mid-twenties,
recorded their largely invisible world from the inside. This yielded a gritty, yet intimate document of the rise of teen culture in the late 1950s.
Rijksmuseum
Details
- Accession number
- RP-F-2007-336
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — © the artist or rights holder
In the life of Bruce Davidson
The whole life1957–1958 · Workplace
Paris
1958 · Membership
Magnum Photos
1959–2002 · Workplace
New York City
