"Haiti, 1985" (Untitled)
Artist: Bruce Gilden (American, born 1946)
Date: 1985
Dimensions:
Overall: 15 15/16 x 19 7/8 in. (40.5 x 50.5 cm);
Image: 12 1/2 x 18 3/4 in. (31.8 x 47.7 cm)
Medium: Gelatin-silver print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1990.90
Label Text:
Much like the social landscape photographers of the 1960s who fused traditional documentary and landscape photography into a new aesthetic, Bruce Gilden’s work is straightforward and non-judgmental. But, like the work of 60s photographers Lee Friedlander and Robert Frank, Gilden’s photographs are often unsettling, ironic, or humorous. They encourage us to examine the life around us.
Gilden refers to his photographs as “abstractions of the energy on the streets.” To increase the abstract qualities of a photograph he often uses a flash to highlight the details and distortions of people moving about. In this image the determined movement of the man is counteracted by the frozen stare of the little girl. The lengthened shadows suggest spectral figures and accentuate perspective.
Much like the social landscape photographers of the 1960s who fused traditional documentary and landscape photography into a new aesthetic, Bruce Gilden’s work is straightforward and non-judgmental. But, like the work of 60s photographers Lee Friedlander and Robert Frank, Gilden’s photographs are often unsettling, ironic, or humorous. They encourage us to examine the life around us.
Gilden refers to his photographs as “abstractions of the energy on the streets.” To increase the abstract qualities of a photograph he often uses a flash to highlight the details and distortions of people moving about. In this image the determined movement of the man is counteracted by the frozen stare of the little girl. The lengthened shadows suggest spectral figures and accentuate perspective.
Not on view
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