A hundred images of New York and Coney Island, in a curious, attentive photographer’s crowded personal homage to his city. People, expressions, faces, gestures and bodies are the ingredients of this intense elegy in black and white.
Gilden photographs his people in black and white only, as if in a vintage film, with 35 mm film and a flash, getting very close to his subject.
His style, which focuses on people’s faces, is both theatrical and dynamic, like that of Lisette Model, whom he admires.
A hundred images of New York and Coney Island, in a curious, attentive photographer’s crowded personal homage to his city. People, expressions, faces, gestures and bodies are the ingredients of this intense elegy in black and white.
Gilden photographs his people in black and white only, as if in a vintage film, with 35 mm film and a flash, getting very close to his subject.
His style, which focuses on people’s faces, is both theatrical and dynamic, like that of Lisette Model, whom he admires.