Photographers in Focus: Bruce Gilden
Street photography can mean many things in a city where life is fast and cameras are affordable. However, New York s undisputed kingpin of the streets has to be iconic Brooklynborn shooter Bruce Gildenthe man who has spent a career getting up close and personaloften uncomfortably sowith the people, and places, of America s most mythologized city. In this, the latest episode of our landmark series Photographers in Focus, filmmaker Joppe Rog turned the lens on a figure who makes the everyday extraordinary, entering a world of sinister glances and often unexpectedly candid revelations. From Coney Island to Manhattan (though he s often trod beyond the five boroughs) Gilden s approach has always been upfront; first using flash and momentum to snap people caught between hurried flight and glacial contemplation. Later he would turn to color: working on a longterm project, and book, collected together as Face. In these we can see, in all their glorious physicality, the storied countenances
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