Bruce Davidson about “Inside a 1950s Brooklyn Gang”
“They were young, poor and reckless but the very embodiment of 1950s cool. Taken in the hot New York summer of 1959, Bruce Davidson’s classic essay Brooklyn Gang, New York, infiltrates a close-knit group of teenagers as they sunbathed, smoked and bloodied each other up. As Davidson tells TIME, the teens were “violent, sexual but full of life.”
Bruce Davidson born 1933 in Illinois is an award winning photographer and a member of the Magnum Cooperative. In this short movie he tells the story of photographing a gang in 1959.
