“Bruce Davidson’s 1959 project Brooklyn Gang is an intimate photographic study of a rebellious Brooklyn teenage gang, who called themselves The Jokers. Not only is Davidson’s work a sincere portrayal of troubled teenagers coming of age, but it also acts as a documentation of teenage life during 1950s, exposing the emotional climate of that time period and exposing the dark side of a supposedly innocent time period”
- Wikipedia
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Thank you to Vonalina and to Michael McKean
This is NOT your Mother’s ‘Laverne & Shirley’!
I adore these. What wonderful moments, presumably all taken in between singing about Summer Nights and being Stranded at the Drive-In.
I really want this book - but it’s going for the rather out of my league price of £657.77 on amazon. Maybe not then. Thanks for posting such wonderful pictures though!
Love the main shot. V much time traveller. Same as the comics!
[...] Auf Wikipedia gibt’s umfassendere Infos über Davidson und seinen Werdegang, die restlichen Bilder findet ihr beim Retronauten. [...]
[...] Jokers” aus Brooklyn fotografisch dokumentiert hat. Mehr Bilder aus dem Projekt gibt es bei hier. Bei all den Fotos mit Schmierschädeln muss ich natürlich sofort an The Wanderers denken. [...]
Interesting there seem to be girls in the gang. And it was around this period that the word teenager was coined
[...] is really inspiring to me. I love the angles he’s shooting from and his abstract perspective. Bruce Davidson I really like his “Brooklyn Gang” series because he made his subject-being a group of [...]
Speaking of the retro-ness of these images, I love the graininess. It’s one of those things that I’ve forgotten about with digital images where it’s “noise” and not “grain”. Davidson’s angle of the shot really accentuates the energy of the people he’s shooting. Love this old stuff!
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