Bruce Gilden on Swedish TV

[chambrenoire]

There's a arts & culture program here in Sweden called Kobra that aired an interview with Bruce Gilden yesterday. Found the clip on YT and thought I'd share it with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdbh7BimRz8

He's quite the character! 🙂

 

[NY_Dan]

This video really shows BG's unsavory side. 🙂

 

[Rodchenko]

He doesn't see it, evidently.

 

[Vics]

Excellent! Thanks for posting this.

 

[superultramega]

Let's go easy on Bruce. I like that he's out there doing his thing and that he's doing it his way.

 

[hepcat]

I wonder how many times he's been taken to the ground, hard? I'm afraid I'd do that to him out of reflex. Maybe New Yorkers put up with that, but I don't think that'd go over so well in places where people demand a larger personal space.

 

[zuiko85]

Don't have much comment on his technique. To each his own. His gutter vocabulary however makes him appear to be of limited intelligence.

 

[chambrenoire]

He's the way he is... Some really don't like his approach and style, some really like it. The result is very effective.

 

[kuvvy]

Can't stand him and his attitude. Don't much care for his style either, but each to their own I suppose.

 

[whited3]

I met him; he can be real nice guy. Pretty sure the BG videos portray a caricature of his actual mannerisms. That's just PR 101

And yeah, he has some pretty unsavory moments in that video

 

[finguanzo]

Yeah, not as bad as in the videos... Have bumped into him a few times, pretty nice conversations.. Very forward, New Yorkish, but not as rude as his videos..

 

[aton]

Thank you! Very good video!

 

[Hsg]

Bruce Gildren is a douchebag, sorry, no other way to describe him. His an actor, a street performer, not a photographer.

 

[finguanzo]

ok...........

 

[Michael Markey]

Thanks for posting ... I`m pleased that I`m not the only one who forgets to change the aperture.

 

[xayraa33]

He must get a kick out of making odd and weird people look even more bizarre than they really are and to preserve that aroma of grotesqueness for posterity.

No subtleness is involved in his technique, not even a Diane Arbus subtleness.

 

[kbg32]

One has to admire his chutzpuh.

 

[Bob Michaels]

Bruce Gildren is a douchebag, sorry, no other way to describe him. His an actor, a street performer, not a photographer.

The topic of Bruce Gilden comes around every few months here. Like the general public, most of this group thinks only of him in terms of his street photography. Although that is only a small part of what he does, that appears to derive most of the attention.

See the other part of Bruce Gilden by reviewing his work in Haiti or foreclosures in Detroit, Fresno and Las Vegas. Quite a different persona.

Read credits carefully and you can find some of his editorial work. Really good work.

For a different perspective about Bruce Gilden, listen to him talk about and show his work in Haiti here.

 

[anjoca76]

The topic of Bruce Gilden comes around every few months here. Like the general public, most of this group thinks only of him in terms of his street photography. Although that is only a small part of what he does, that appears to derive most of the attention.

See the other part of Bruce Gilden by reviewing his work in Haiti or foreclosures in Detroit, Fresno and Las Vegas. Quite a different persona.

Read credits carefully and you can find some of his editorial work. Really good work.

For a different perspective about Bruce Gilden, listen to him talk about and show his work in Haiti here.

I agree. He can be a polarizing figure, for sure, but there is more to his work than the brusque in-your-face street photography he is most known for.

What I do admire about his in-your-face stuff is just that: he gets right in there and captures people in vulnerable moments. What really bugs me about a lot of "street" work is there tends to be no subject, just wide-angle shots of nothing in particular. When there is no obvious subject, I personally find it boring. Bruce's method might be the other extreme, but at least there is something to talk about.

 

[Hsg]

The topic of Bruce Gilden comes around every few months here. Like the general public, most of this group thinks only of him in terms of his street photography. Although that is only a small part of what he does, that appears to derive most of the attention.

See the other part of Bruce Gilden by reviewing his work in Haiti or foreclosures in Detroit, Fresno and Las Vegas. Quite a different persona.

Read credits carefully and you can find some of his editorial work. Really good work.

For a different perspective about Bruce Gilden, listen to him talk about and show his work in Haiti here.

The man is full of contempt and anger towards the people on the streets. Why does a man of his age have to act like some hoodlum?

He looks like and acts like a cheap pawnshop owner but by some freak luck his a member with magnum, so he has to justify that membership by going out of his way to act like some temperamental artist. His not an artist, his work is not original, his tactics are not original, even his fake Brooklyn hood persona is not original.


His videos are a terrible publicity for street photographers. The man is an embarrassment.

Sorry, I know he has fans but that says more about our vulgar culture than Gilden's value as a photographer.