During the summer of 1959, Bruce Davidson followed a loosely knit "gang" of teenagers around Brooklyn, New York. His camera captured these children of the James Dean generation in both private and public moments at the soda fountain, the tattoo parlor, Coney Island, and late-night basement dance parties. The beautiful adolescents that fill the pages of this book exude a cool sensuality which came by way of the young Brando and Dean, and traveled from American shores around the world. Davidson has created an exquisite ...
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During the summer of 1959, Bruce Davidson followed a loosely knit "gang" of teenagers around Brooklyn, New York. His camera captured these children of the James Dean generation in both private and public moments at the soda fountain, the tattoo parlor, Coney Island, and late-night basement dance parties. The beautiful adolescents that fill the pages of this book exude a cool sensuality which came by way of the young Brando and Dean, and traveled from American shores around the world. Davidson has created an exquisite photographic elegy for a time when, in retrospect, we all seemed young.
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Seller's Description:
New in New jacket. Quarto. 98pgs. Black yellow stamped cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket in fine slipcase. Beautifully designed and reproduced using the sheet fed gravure method, this collection of Bruce Davidson's photos of a Brooklyn gang were taken in the the 1950's and are here gathered in book form for the first time. This book was limited to 4, 000 casebound copies in addition to 150 signed and numbered copies of which this is #118, in black slipcase, yellow lettering. Davidson has signed his name on the lower portion of the colophon page in black felt tip pen. The book is numbered in yellow ink, also on the colophon. A beautiful production.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Twin Palms, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 1998. 96 pgs. One of a limited edition of 4000 copies. Signed and inscribed by Bruce Davidson on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In 1959 Davidson read about the teenage gangs of New York City. Connecting with a social worker to make initial contact with a gang called the Jokers, Davidson became a daily observer and photographer of this alienated youth culture. The Fifties are often considered passive and pale by our standards of urban reality, but Davidson's photographs prove otherwise. In a recent New York Times article discussing this work, Davidson admitted he feared the erratic and often violent rules and routines of the Jokers. It is tempting to consider what this book might have been like had more of the detail of Brooklyn's 1950s white gang culture, as revealed in that Times article, been used to reinforce this spare volume. But this book gets to the point quickly, on its own terms. Nearly 70 sheet-fed gravure plates images of tough people, tough lives, tough lovers, all trying to be cool are followed by just two pages of recollections by the photographer and a lengthier interview with Benjie, a surviving gang member, now a drug counselor. EB; 4to 11"-13" tall; 96 pages.
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Illustrated by Davidson, Bruce. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0944092500. "In the spring of 1959 I met a group of teenagers in Brooklyn who called themsleves 'The Jokers. ' I found myself involved with a group of unpredictable youths who were mostly indifferent to me. In time they allowed me to witness their fear, depression, and anger."-page 81. "The beautiful adolescents that fill the pages of this book exude a cool sensuality which came by way of the young Brando and Dean, and traveled from American shores around the world. Davidson has created an exquisite photographic elegy for a time when, in retrospect, we all seemed young."-Publisher. Lavishly produced. 98, [2], pp. 67 Gravure plates. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Tight and square. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. 29 x 26 cm. An excellent copy.; 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall; Brooklyn New York-Gangs, Brooklyn New York-Pictorial Works, The Jokers, Bengie,
