"Haiti, 1985" (Untitled)

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"Haiti, 1985" (Untitled)

Artist Bruce Gilden (American, born 1946)

Date1985

DimensionsOverall: 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)

MediumGelatin-silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1990.90

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Label TextMuch 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.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Refraction/Reflection, April 20-September 2, 2012.