Bruce Gilden

Bruce Gilden, a native New Yorker, has received critical acclaim for his black and white portraits and street scenes. He has won multiple awards and has published many books and his work, exhibited widely around the world is part of numerous permanent collections. Gilden joined Magnum Photos in 1998.

From 1968 until the late 1980's Gilden worked on an essay that focused on the famous Mardi Gras in New Orleans but at the same time he was working on his first long-term project on Coney Island. This work was published in his book "Coney Island'' in 2002. In 1984 Gilden began to work in Haiti, returning there nineteen times to photograph. The book "Haiti" concluded this work in 1996. Since 1981 Gilden has been working on a long-term project about the streets of New York City.   This work has culminated in the publication of "Facing New York" in 1992 and   "A Beautiful Catastrophe" in 2005. His next project explored rural Ireland and its passion for horseracing. The book "After the Off" juxtaposes Gilden's photographs with text by the Irish writer Dermot Healey.   In 2000 Gilden's published "Go", the result of his immersion in Japanese culture, with images of Yakuza, the homeless, and Bosozoku or young biker gangs.

After many years of worldwide odysseys, Gilden has felt the recent urge to photograph his own country. He is currently working on a project about foreclosure in Florida and also in Detroit.   This work has given Gilden    incentive for his next extended personal project: A wide social portrait of North America in this time of recession.

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