Bruce Gilden
(United States, b. 1946)
Coney Island, 1985
Silver Gelatin Print, Printed by Artist

$800 SOLD

Signed on back

This print was given to FotoFest by the artist in 1991.

Bruce Gilden is a well-known U.S. artist, whose interest in photography was sparked by seeing Michelangelo Antonioni's film Blow Up, after which he began taking night classes in photography at the New York School of Visual Arts. His first major project, which he worked on until 1986, focuses on Coney Island and on the intimacy of the fat or skinny, sensual bodies sprawled across the legendary New York beach. He then worked in New Orleans photographing Mardi Gras. In 1984, he began a ten-year project on Haiti, one of his best known projects and books. In June 1998, Gilden was invited to join Magnum Photos. He continued his ongoing project about the streets of New York City, a series has been working on since 1981. He has published the books Facing New York (Stockport, England, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1993) and A Beautiful Catastrophe (Brooklyn, New York, powerHouse Books, 2005).  In 1990, Gilden was awarded a book project prize by FotoFest and Kodak.