Fine Print: Jimmy Armstrong at Clyde Beatty Circus, New Jersey, USA, 1958 Color Kubota photographed the Long Neck

Kubota photographed the Long Neck Tribes

Robert Capa once said

conveying an air of relaxed intimacy

but the reality of life in the jazz community at the time

Dennis Stock set out on a road trip around California to document a cultural phenomenon

Fine Print: Jimmy Armstrong at Clyde Beatty Circus, New Jersey, USA, 1958 Color Kubota photographed the Long NeckBruce Davidson was 24 when he visited the Clyde Beatty Circus at Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey in 1958. The photographs he took there would go on to form the first part of one of his most celebrated bodies of work: Circus, a black and white visual chronicle of mid century big tops in America as the cultural phenomenon was beginning to die out. None of the circus performers that Davidson encountered had a more profound effect on him than Jimmy