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Bruce Gilden Street Shooter - Shot By Me!

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petach

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This last Sunday I managed to bump into and shoot famous US street shooter Bruce Gilden. Bruce is 65 and still pounds the pavement with his aggressive in your face style of street shooting. A Leica compact and off camera flash.....in your face, crash bang wallop, move on.....next, crash flash bash.

Look him up on youtube or google.

He is a member of the internationally renowned Magnum Photos (of Robert Cappa fame)

I am soooooooooooooooooo pleased to have shot him in action!


Bruce Gilden by petach123, on Flickr
 
Congrats, a great photograph. His style in my eyes is junk in terms of street photography. It's photography, of course, but not 'street' in it's pure meaning. But each to his own...... ;)
 
Great capture petach. I'm not a fan of his photography or process.
But its always good to capture fame in a photograph.
 
Pete, you did really well. The movement, the fleeting energy, you really made a real portrait of him.
You owe it to yourself and him to send him a signed print.
I'm sure he would be honored to have it.
Don
 
a real fun catch pete :D you caught the catcher :lol:

as for the "Gilden style" .... well to see who and of what he seems to prefer to expose - and to like it or no - for me is the point perhaps question of his photography . Is it hard edged - rough/tough end because it not being vogue magazine cover, but then absolutely not supposed to be ...so the opposite of sultry offerings of posed/supposed perfection , but if to be the opposite of imaginary is truth or "reality" then why is it difficult on the eye ? - because that advertised around us daily is misleading or that the reality goes preffered unseen - or perhaps ignored ?

for me as is so... "in your face" , says it all ;)

Kort

:)
 
streetshooter":3407mrjr said:
Pete, you did really well. The movement, the fleeting energy, you really made a real portrait of him.
You owe it to yourself and him to send him a signed print.
I'm sure he would be honored to have it.
Don
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I might just do that Don. I have his email address.......might mail him a copy!
Cheers............Pete
 
Tis a great catch Petach...but like others, not real sure about his methods, nor some of his work. Still, each to their own ... ;)
 
Great capture and very well presented.

However, as much as I like shooting "street" myself, I'm not too sure about this guy's methods / intentions. He certainly appears to want to provoke a reaction. Dependent upon how I was feeling at the time he stuck his camera in my face, the next time he saw it might just be an x-ray to have it removed from a very tender orifice.... :shock:
 
Excellent capture! It's a great shot of him in action, along with the smiles on the faces of the people he is capturing.
 
I think its awesome that you got a street image of a famous street photographer.
Thanks for introducing him to me, I really had not seen any of his work previously.
 
We went to the "Format" festival of street photography in Derby last March to see the talk / meet with Joel Meyerowitz. His work is also worth a view as he's another self-styled "street ninja" and has been at it (so to speak) for 50 years. We didn't the Bruce Gilden documentary but this whole genre intrigues me and I like shooting in the street. I think it takes a certain type of personality to get so "up close and personal" as some, though.
 
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