© Bruce Gilden

Journal de confinement #9 : Gilden

Nos artistes nous envoient leurs cartes postales.

Voici Bruce Gilden qui nous écrit depuis son atelier à Beacon, New York.

 

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"I spent the first weeks of quarantine organizing my print archive with the help of my French intern Pierre Sérot (who has since found a flight back to France).


When we opened the box where we found these two photographs, I remembered them distinctly. They were both taken during the San Gennaro festival in New York City and I always thought they were good and even better than a lot of the photographs in my first book Facing New York. The reason I had decided not to show them is because I'm a perfectionist:  the negative was overexposed and when I first saw the prints I realized that the flash was a little too harsh on the skin. I was disappointed and I'm so critical that I just put them aside during all these years."



 



© Bruce Gilden