Bruce Gilden (2 Viewers)

[hugh]

Video of him doing street photography in New York here. It's worth a look. I like his stuff. Can you imagine doing this on O'Connell Street though?

 

[sarah]

Great results, just goes to show that if you are completely obvious then people assume you must be aiming at something else. I remember years ago when I was flaked out on steps with my bike, this guy stalking on the opposite side of the street trying to take my picture -very conspicuous, if he had been right up in my face and took it quickly, I probably would have assumed he was trying to take the building. He eventually got embarrassed and just asked so I contorted my face into the camera which I usually do.

 

[hugh]

Yeah, I much prefer this kind of approach to the sneaking around with a long lens trying to take people's pictures from across the street thing. Gilden is a little obnoxious about it though - the way he suddenly leaps into someone's face and bangs off the flash.

There is another video knocking around of Joel Meyerowitz doing much the same thing. He is a lot subtler about it though - even though he get's just as close to his subjects. He blends in a bit more and interacts with the people on the street by smiling at them and so on.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dipTqJfiE4"]Here it is [/ame]

 

[Ferox13]

Gilden is a little obnoxious about it though - the way he suddenly leaps into someone's face and bangs off the flash.

Totally agree - he comes over very arrogant to his subjects and to the interviewer with him.

That being said i like his results..

 

[hugh]

Totally agree - he comes over very arrogant to his subjects and to the interviewer with him.

That being said i like his results..

Yeah. He has a book about Haiti too which looks really good. I'd love to know if he carried on the same way there ...

He also has one about Toykyo. You can buy a special edition of this from the Magnum shop which includes a actual signed Gilden print. Unfortunately it's 800 dollars. I do have a birthday coming up though so anyone who knows me in real life might just bear that in mind ....

 

[Stonie McHash]

the haiti one is really good

 

[Ferox13]

I never heard of this guy til I read the thread. I asked my photographer friend had she heard of him adn she worked with him on a book about horse racing.

I was hanging out with her Saturday and I totally forgot to ask her about him.

 

[hugh]

I never heard of this guy til I read the thread. I asked my photographer friend had she heard of him adn she worked with him on a book about horse racing.

I was hanging out with her Saturday and I totally forgot to ask her about him.

No way. "After The Off" is the name of the book he did in Ireland ... it looks really good too.

 

[La La]

hate his method, love his results. i bid on one of his shots from the GOP's recent exhibition - and lost, it would seem.

 

[hugh]

hate his method, love his results. i bid on one of his shots from the GOP's recent exhibition - and lost, it would seem.

Me too!!

 

[Stonie McHash]

Didn't the gallery of photography commision him a few years ago? I heard the results weren't great but didn't see them myself. But then that was on boards.ie and they don't like anything that's not sunsets or kids.