A good friend who's a decent photographer used to say that Gilden is a street performer and not a street photographer... Imo street photography is like a street performance, but inversely if you're good no one takes notice, if you're bad they call the news crew and embarrass you for the rest of your life, as it happened in the case of these guys.
Gilden likes attention, thats his personality, we meet people like that everywhere. He likes to jump on people and then chat with them and so on... he makes a certain kind of image that is 'cool' for some people, but nothing that makes you think or feel, more of an instant look and then forgotten. His no intellectual thats for sure, and that he does not pretend to be one is admirable.
