Gilden, Bruce - Haïti

€ 75,00

When Bruce first arrived in Haiti in 1984, he said to himself, "Where have I been this whole time?" The attraction was that immediate, and since that first trip, Bruce has been down to the Caribbean nation twenty two times. The simply-titled Haiti is the physical embodiment of Bruce's long time professional and personal connection to a country whose unique soul and spirit he has captured in all its rawness and vibrancy.

An Iconic street photographer with a unique style,  Bruce Gilden was born in  Brooklyn, New York in 1946. He first went to Penn State University but he found his sociology courses too boring for his temperament and he quit college. Gilden briefly toyed with the idea of being an actor but in 1967, he decided to buy a camera and to become a photographer. Although he did attend some evening classes at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Bruce Gilden is to be considered substantially a self-taught photographer.

 

Right from childhood, he has always been fascinated by the life on thestreets and the complicated and fascinating motion it involves, and this was the spark that inspired his first long-term personal projects, photographing in Coney Island and then during theMardi Gras in New Orleans.

 

Over the years he has produced long and detailed photographic projects in New York, Haiti, France , Ireland, India, Russia, Japan, England and now in America.

 Since the seventies his work has been exhibited in museum and art galleries all over the world and is part of many collections.

 

The photographic style of Bruce Gilden is defined by the  dynamic accent of his pictures, his special graphic qualities, and his original and direct manner of shooting the faces of passers-by with a flash. Gilden’s powerful images in black and white and now in color have brought the Magnum photographer worldwide fame.