SO much going on at FotoWeek DC! I hope you have all had a look at the offerings and are making plans now to attend the 2009 Festivities!
As part of FotoWeek DC, Bruce Gilden will be speaking at 5:30 at the School of Communications, Weschler Theater, Mary Graydon Center at American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, room 31 (Free Parking is available after 5 pm in the Sports Center Garage)
| “As part of the Camera as Catalyst Magnum Photographers Series, Bruce Gilden will
lecture on his work. Gilden’s curiosity about strong characters and individual peculiarities has been present from the beginning of his career. His first major project, which he worked on until 1986, focused on Coney Island, and on the intimacy of the sensual, fat or skinny bodies sprawled across the legendary New York beach. During these early years Gilden also photographed in New Orleans during its famous Mardi Gras festival. Then, in 1984,he began to work in Haiti, following his fascination with voodoo places, rites and beliefs there; his book Haiti was published in 1996. In June 1998 Gilden joined Magnum. He returned to his roots and tackled a new approach to urban spaces, specifically the streets of New York City, where he had been working since 1981. His work culminated in the publication of Facing New York (1992), and later A Beautiful Catastrophe (2005); getting ever closer to his subject, he established an expressive and theatrical style that presented the world as a vast comedy of manners. His project After the Off, with text by the Irish writer Dermot Healey, explored rural Ireland and its craze for horseracing. Gilden’s next book, Go, was a penetrating look at Japan’s dark side. Images of the homeless and of Japan’smafia gangs easily bypassed the conventional visual clichés of Japanese culture. Gilden, who has travelled and exhibited widely around the world, has received numerous awards, including the European Award for Photography, three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and a Japan Foundation fellowship. He lives in New York City. (www.magnumphotos.com” |
