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Meet Bruce Gilden. He’s one of our favorite Magnum photographers, and in case you’re clueless, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship this past year and is known to be one of the badassest badasses in the business. When we asked him to film a new show, he agreed on the terms that it wouldn’t suck and, if it did, we’d let him sock us in the face.
This is Take It or Leave It with Bruce Gilden, a photo-critique series in which Bruce tells up-and-coming photographers if their work is transcendent, total crap, or somewhere in between. In our second episode, he takes on the world of street photography.
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Thus guy is so intelligent
you suck !!!! this video is shit!!!!!
Thanks a lot for tips.
Why did he reject the first two photos?
I made it to two minutes of watching the video before turning it off. Not impressed…..
Love the honest criticism, not just being all polite and positive
..watch the string..make up a story!…a fairly unattractive, lecherous old man sits in front of a video camera spewing opinions about others' photographs_______and then…..????
This guy really focuses on the content and not the subject matter. He’d be a great modern art critic
I ain’t even see the first 5 he roasted lmfao what was wrong with them
i hate people who write on a picture or on some thing to show a default just use your finger .
Wow, what a snatch.
The main lesson that he is trying to teach is this: tell a story.
You want the photograph to guide, but not show exactly what to look at.
The rest is up to the viewer's interpretation.
great advice!
how am i just seeing this now
This guy pretty much jumps in front of people with a flash and snaps away. He's been decked in the face many times.
Bruce is what Bruce is, hi knows his photography.
I️ hate all these so called “ experts “ who think they know everything about something when they literally say to everyone “ you can never know everything “ so wtf makes you the expert ??
Look At Us Americans Aren't We Ignorant
Probably a good photographer but very poor human qualities
I rolled my eyes when he made those critics on those "Street Photographs". Street photos are supposed to be spontaneous, natural, organic, genuine, not staged – FREE – it is a combination of luck, timing of events, gestures and movements of the subjects and the photographers artistry, creativity. And yet he talked about the alignment of the people's heads, this, this, and that. like duh.
i love the ending scene, hahahaa
schlomo goldstein
What a snob
i want to hate this guy but i love him too much
you know who you are and who do it, big respect Gildon
I find this guy hyper pretentious with just a deep seeded connotation of elitism
So what you are saying is that there are a bunch of people taking a bunch of crap- but with really expensive cameras that have the photo quality of a Kodak Brownie cameras from 1952? Except lewd dude on the beach? How is that not crap too?
sort your pencil out mate.