Magnum’s Bruce Gilden Delivers a Brutally Honest Critique of Art Photography

I’m not such a fan of Bruce Gilden‘s in your face with camera and flash style. And I’m not sure that I like his pictures much. They seem a bit ‘samey’ to me. However, as I said in an earlier post on Garry Winogrand it may just be that I struggle with street photography in general. I keep trying, but I still “don’t get it”.

I do like Gilden’s style in his critiques though and I find that I pretty much agree with everything he’s saying.

Bruce Gilden — a Brooklyn-born photographer who has won numerous awards and is now part of the Guggenheim Fellowship thanks to his street photography work — recently sat down with VICE to do a little art critique. Although ‘critique’ might be a nice way of putting it.

Gilden’s no-nonsense personality makes for a blunt and honest review of art photographs the likes of which you probably won’t see anywhere else. Fortunately, it’s also extremely educational… and a bit funny.

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