This heartfelt and sincere portrait documents love affairs, ideals, fears and the hang-ups of an epoch during a key phase of life.
In the summer of 1959 Bruce Davidson decided to cross over the Brooklyn Bridge and document in photographs the kids in the local gangs: literate and rebellious teenagers, uneasy about everyday loneliness and the uncertainties of a generation on the threshold of adulthood.

In an age that stands out for its primness and innocence, Bruce Davidson’s photographs provide vital witness to myths, ways of behaving and being part of an entire generation. He displays a journalist’s perspective, detached yet curious: the indelible mark that characterizes all his work.
“When I seek out a story, I eke it out in my relationship with the subject – it has to be a story that tells me something rather than just a story I’m telling..”

Bruce Davidson, a Magnum photographer since 1958, lives and works in New York.