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Brooklyn Gang.
by DAVIDSON, Bruce
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publisher,, 1998. First edition, first printing. One of 50 copies signed by the photographer with a photographic print signed on the verso also signed by the photographer. This is the first publication of the complete set of a series of photographs taken during the summer of 1959 by Magnum photographer Davidson. The photographs follow "The Jokers", one of the many youth gangs in Brooklyn at a time when there were "an estimated thousand gang members in New York City". The photographs are accompanied by a short text by the photographer and a longer interview with one of the former gang members. Quarto. Original black cloth, lettering to spine and front cover in yellow. With photographic dust jacket. Housed in the original black cloth clamshell box with lettering to front cover and spine in yellow. Illustrated with 71 full page photogravure images. Together with a loose photographic print. Image size: 19 x12.7 cm. Sheet size: 25 x 20 cm. All in fine condition. Roth 196
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- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 163258
- Title
- Brooklyn Gang.
- Author
- DAVIDSON, Bruce
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publisher,
- Date Published
- 1998
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