Bruce Gilden
Born 1946 (73 years old)
His style of street photography is using a flash and being close to his subjects.
He has received many awards over the years, European Publisher Award for Photography and also a Guggenheim as well as others.
He is also a member of Magnum Photos since 98.
At Penn state, he learned sociology, but was to boring and quite college.
He thought about being an actor but around 67 he bought his first camera.
Taking night classes at SVA in NY.
As you can tell by his work he was fascinated with the people on the street.
He has worked with BW for a large part of his career. When he used the lecia S camera, he was doing some color work as well as digital.
Some of his subjects are everyday people, mobsters, homeless, gang members and many other types of people.
