Bruce guilds

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Bruce Gilden (born October 16, 1946 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American reportage photographer . He was best known for his work on the residents of New York City. Gilden distinguishes himself from other street photographers in particular by his consistent use of flash and the short distance to his subject.

job

Gilden graduated from Pennsylvania State University and then attended classes at New York City's School of Visual Arts, but is essentially a self-taught photographer . With his first report, Coney Island , Gilden showed his fascination for strange characters and peculiarities. On the beach of Coney Island he especially photographed the people who stood out from the usual crowd, overweight or underweight people, as well as intimate moments of the beach visitors.

His special way of working is to wait for a motif with a camera and flash unit ready to hand, then to get close to the motif very quickly and to photograph it with the flash. Through the use of the flash, the subject stands out from the background with a high contrast.

In 2007, the documentary Misery Loves Company: The Life and Death of Bruce Gilden was released, which deals with the work and life of Bruce Gilden. His current report Detroit - A City in Trouble deals with the social hardship of the Detroit residents who are affected by the financial crisis.

Gilden has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1998, and in 2002 he became one of the few full members.

In his street photography work, Gilden uses Leica M cameras with wide-angle lenses and unleashed compact flashes. Gilden uses a digital medium format Leica for his portrait work.

Honourings and prices

  • 1979: New York Foundation of the Arts (artist grant)
  • 1980: Scholarship from the National Foundation of Art Photographers
  • 1984: Scholarship from the National Foundation of Art Photographers
  • 1992: Scholarship from the National Foundation of Art Photographers
  • 1994: New York Foundation for the Arts (artist grant)
  • 1996: European Publishers Award for Photography
  • 1996: Villa Medici grant (Hors les Murs - artist grant)
  • 1999: Scholarship from the Japanese Artist Foundation
  • 2000: New York Foundation for the Arts (artist grant)

bibliography

  • The Small Haiti Portfolio (Limited Edition) , Helsinki, Finland (1990)
  • Facing New York , Cornerhouse Publications, GB (1992)
  • CRP Nord Pas-de-Calais , France (1994)
  • Bleus, Cahier # 13 , Mission Photographique Transmanche (1994)
  • Haïti, Dreams and Nightmares , Dewi Lewis Publishing and Editions Marval, GB & France (1997)
  • After the Off , short story by Dermot Healy . Dewi Lewis Publishing, GB (1999)
  • Ciganos , Centro Portuguès de Fotografia, Lisbon, Portugal (1999)
  • Haiti , Dewi Lewis Publishing and Editions Marval, GB & France (1999)
  • Go , Trebruk-Magnum, USA (2000)
  • Coney Island , Trebruk, GB (2002)
  • New York City (2004)
  • A Beautiful Catastrophe , Powerhouse, USA (2005)
  • Magnum Stories (2005)
  • Fashion Magazine , Magnum Photos, France (2006)

Lexical entry

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Bruce Gilden in Press Packet ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 569 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / brucesilverstein.com
  2. ↑ Bruce Gilden's biography in THE RED LIST
  3. ^ Misery Loves Company: The Life and Death of Bruce Gilden , New York Times. Retrieved September 2, 2008. 
  4. ↑ Master Profiles: Bruce Gilden. In: Shooter Files by fd walker. July 16, 2015, Retrieved December 2, 2019 (American English).
  5. ↑ x-publishers: In Your Face: An Interview with Bruce Gilden (Part 1). Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Guilds, Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American reportage photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City