Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Bruce Gilden

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American photographer Bruce Gilden.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Bruce Gilden

Bruce Gilden is an American street photographer. He is best known for his candid close-up photographs of people on the streets of New York City, using a flashgun. He has had various books of his work published, has received the European Publishers Award for Photography and is a Guggenheim Fellow. Gilden has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1998. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.

Everything isn't black and white, but for me it might as well be.
If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph
I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them. — © Bruce Gilden
I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.
I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.
There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while.
I'm photographing myself out there. Not myself physically, but mentally. It's my take on the world.
I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.
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