Bruce gilden

Acclaimed American street photographer Bruce Gilden is notable for his high level energy candid close-up portraits of people on the street and his cinematic imagery now in color. His work is part of numerous museums and galleries around the world. Gilden has published 18 books since 1998. Bruce Gilden was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013. He lives in New York.

By Charles Desmarais June 22, 2018 (SFChronicle.com) “Dewayn, Des Moines, Iowa, USA” (2014) Photo: Bruce Gilden / Magnum Photos 2014 “Lulu and Daniel, Jackson, Mississippi, USA” (2014) is by Bruce Gilden. Photo: Bruce Gilden / Magnum Photos “Pat, Nanakuli, Hawaii, USA” (2016) is by Bruce Gilden. Photo: Bruce Gilden / Magnum Photos In this scene from … Continue reading Bruce Gilden’s grotesques at Pier 24 Photography →

Every person in Appalachia has a relationship with God, intentionally or otherwise. You could say the same thing about these pictures taken by Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden.

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We’ve featured Bruce Gilden’s stark portraits "before":http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/bruce-gilden-middlesex and his latest book _Face_, features some of the most unforgiving and extreme images we’ve seen from the photographer. Taken from 2012 to 2014 during Bruce’s travels in America, United Kingdom and Colombia, each face fills the image in unabashed, unflinching defiance.

Bruce Gilden captured striking and harrowing portraits of prostitutes for his new collection Only God Can Judge Me. They told him stories of being set on fire and getting hooked on drugs.

“They’re my friends for twenty minutes,” says New York City-based photographer Bruce Gilden of the personalities that together make up his newest book Face. Over the past few years, he has collected the countenances of those who spend their lives overlooked and unseen in crowds, visages that when scrutinized, slip from the familiar and banal and over—ever so slightly—into the extraordinary.

Magnum Photographer Bruce Gilden stands as one of photography's most important contemporary figures, celebrated for his raw and powerful portrayals of life on the city streets.