Mar 13, 2019

During this one day workshop legendary photographer Bruce Gilden will provide insight through interactive sessions and group discussions on shooting methods, individual style and editing tips. At this workshop Gilden will assist you in developing or expanding your style as a photographer. This workshop is open to both amateurs and professionals. This is a rare opportunity to learn from a living legend. This workshop offers: • Concepts of street photography • Developing an eye • Editing Tips Please Submit Photographs to The Brownsville Museum of Fine Art for a chance to have them Critiqued by Gilden during the last hour of lecture. Bruce Gilden: An Iconic street photographer with a unique style, Bruce Gilden was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946. He first went to Penn State University but he found his sociology courses too boring for his temperament and he quit college. Gilden briefly toyed with the idea of being an actor but in 1967, he decided to buy a camera and to become a photographer. Although he did attend some evening classes at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Bruce Gilden is to be considered substantially a self-taught photographer. Right from childhood, he has always been fascinated by the life on the streets and the complicated and fascinating motion it involves, and this was the spark that inspired his first long-term personal projects, photographing in Coney Island and then during the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Over the years he has produced long and detailed photographic projects in New York, Haiti, France , Ireland, India, Russia, Japan, England and now in America. Since the seventies his work has been exhibited in museum and art galleries all over the world and is part of many collections. The photographic style of Bruce Gilden is defined by the dynamic accent of his pictures, his special graphic qualities, and his original and direct manner of shooting the faces of passers-by with a flash. Gilden’s powerful images in black an
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Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, 660 E Ringgold St
Brownsville, TX 78520
Phone: (956) 542-0941
Email: dramirez@brownsvillemfa.org
Cost: $60.00
Attendance: Family Friendly
Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM