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.
