Bruce Gilden

Bruce Gilden Research

Bruce Gilden is a street photographer who was born in 1946. His most famous work is when he went to New York. He got into photography by Michelangelo Antonioni's film blow up. After this he got a camera and went to night classes. He was fascinated with normal people on the street and the idea of visual spontaneity, so Bruce turned to a career in photography.

Bruce Gilden

Bruce Gilden sometimes uses a flash to alert the people around him that he is there. Not many other street photographers do this because they think it ruins the picture if the subject is looking at the camera. Bruce said that he was fascinated by the duality and double lives of the individuals he photographed.

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I like Bruce Gilden because he takes upfront pictures of people and so you can see all the details of the subject. It's giving us an insight into the different cultures of the places he goes to such as when he went to Haiti, he photographed their beliefs and voodoo rituals which the Haitians did. Another example is when he went to New York you could See by his photos most people were rushing.