A Complete Examination of Middlesex
Bruce Gilden
Archive of Modern Conflict
English
Hardcover
Edition of 50
104 pages
230 x 340 mm
2013
ISBN 9780957049055
In A Complete Examination of Middlesex, New York-based street photographer Bruce Gilden captures the diversity of characters populating the streets of London. In colour and black and white, Gilden’s snapshots present the viewer with shots of the isolated hands, feet and faces of passersby.
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About the Artist
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. The photographic style of 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 colour have brought the Magnum photographer worldwide fame. Gilden has received many awards and grants for his work, including National Endowments for the Arts fellowships (1980, 1984 and 1992), French “Villa Medicis Hors les Murs” grant (1995), grants from the New York State Foundation for the Arts ( 1979, 1992 and 2000), a Japan Foundation Artist Fellowship (1999) and in 2013 a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.
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About the Publisher
The Archive of Modern Conflict is an organisation dedicated to the collection and preservation of vernacular photographs, objects, artefacts, curiosities, and ephemera. Founded in 1991, the archive began as a collection of photographs relating to war and conflict but has since expanded its remit to become the vast and thematically diverse repository it is today. They have produced and published over thirty books, often collaborating with photographers and artists such as Stephen Gill, Cristina de Middel, Thomas Mailaender, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, and Don McCullin.
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