Fine Print: Brooklyn Gang. Coney Island, New York, USA, 1959 Architecture

Fine Print: Brooklyn Gang. Coney Island, New York, USA, 1959 ArchitectureThey were young, poor and reckless but the very embodiment of 1950s cool. Taken in the hot New York summer of 1959, Bruce Davidsons classic essay Brooklyn Gang, New York, infiltrates a close knit group of teenagers as they sunbathed, smoked and bloodied each other up. Connecting with a social worker to make initial contact with the gang who called themselves The Jokers, Davidson became a daily observer and photographer of this alienated youth culture.

Burt Glinn had a gift for capturing the soul of counterculture with his lens

Bischof stayed in Japan for almost a year

capturing how this man and his vision of America touched us with steadfast idealism and humanity

sparking an interest that he would later return to as a photographer

Arnold noted Monroe’s fragile state during the production: “My most poignant memory of Marilyn is of how distressed

Describing the photograph

at the age of 28

The over 50 works of the exhibition covered 15 years of his photography

On this trip

the resulting pictures … reveal a lush intensity

In 1980 French Magnum photographer Raymond Depardon was commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine to photograph Scotland’s largest city: Glasgow

from dawn to dusk