Bruce Gilden
PhotographerKnown for: flash-lit street photography in New York
Bruce Gilden has photographed the streets of New York since the 1970s, working at extremely close range and using a handheld flash that illuminates his subjects in the fraction of a second before they can react. His book Facing New York (1992) collected twenty years of street work. He joined Magnum Photos in 1998 and has subsequently produced long-form projects on yakuza in Japan and motorcycle gangs in the American South.
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Leica
The M6, produced from 1984 to 1998, was the first M-series Leica to include a through-the-lens exposure meter. It retained the mechanical shutter and M bayonet mount of earlier cameras, maintaining full compatibility with decades of Leica M lenses.
“Gilden has worked with Leica rangefinders throughout his street photography career; the M6 is documented in accounts of his working practice and in Magnum retrospectives of his New York and Japan projects.”
Kodak
In production since 1954, Tri-X 400 is a black-and-white film whose grain structure, broad exposure latitude, and response to push processing made it the dominant film in photojournalism and street photography for decades.
“Gilden's black-and-white New York street work was shot on Tri-X; he has discussed the film's grain and latitude in interviews about his flash-lit, close-range approach to street photography.”
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