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Bruce Gilden was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1946. Over a career spanning more than 50 years, he has honed his immediately recognizable street-photography style: up-close, flash-lit, emotionally engaged, and real photographs of real people.
Gilden first went to Penn State University, but found his sociology courses too boring for his temperament and quit college. He briefly toyed with the idea of being an actor, but in 1967 he decided to buy a camera and to become a photographer. Besides taking a few evening classes at the New York School of Visual Arts, Gilden is predominantly self-taught. Right from childhood, he has been fascinated by life on the streets, and this was the spark that inspired his first long-term personal projects, photographing in Coney Island and then during Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Since then, Gilden has continued to focus on strong characters and to apply Robert Capa’s mantra to his own work, “If the picture isn’t good enough, you aren’t close enough.”
Gilden joined Magnum Photos in 1998 and became a full member in 2002. Over the years, he has produced
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Bruce Gilden
American street photographer (born 1946)
Bruce Gilden (born 1946) is an American street photographer. He is best known for his candid close-up photographs of people on the streets of New York City, using a flashgun.[1][2] He has had various books of his work published, has received the European Publishers Award for Photography and is a Guggenheim Fellow. Gilden has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1998. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.
Life and work
Gilden was born in Brooklyn, New York. While studying sociology at Penn State, he saw Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blowup in 1968. Influenced by the film, he purchased his first camera and began taking night classes in photography at the School of Visual Arts of New York. Fascinated with people on the street and the idea of visual spontaneity, Gilden turned to a career in photography. His work is characterized by his use of flash photography. He has worked in black and white most of his life, but he began shooting in color and digital when he was introduced to the Leica S camer
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Acclaimed street photographer with a unique style, Bruce Gilden was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946. He first went to Penn State University but he found his sociology courses too boring for his temperament and he quit college. Gilden briefly toyed with the idea of being an actor but in 1967, he decided to buy a camera and to become a photographer. Besides taking a few evening classes at the School of Visual Arts, Gilden is predominantly self-taught. Right from childhood, he has always been fascinated by the life on the streets and the complicated and fascinating motion it involves, and this was the spark that inspired his first long-term personal projects, photographing in Coney Island and then during the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Since then, Bruce Gilden has continued to focus on strong characters and to apply Robert Capa’s mantra to his own work: “if the picture isn’t good enough, you aren’t close enough”. Over the years he has produced long and detailed photographic projects in New York, Haiti, France , Ireland, India, Russia, Japan, England and now in America. Gilden has p
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