Signed X 2 Bruce Gilden - 1 - 2019

Exceptionally dedicated and signed on the front matter by Bruce Gilden. 168 pages and about 75 black and white photographs printed full-page on recto only, text in French. Sturdy cloth-like hardcover binding and a band on the back of the book. In Excellent condition, practically like new. This copy is accompanied by an 8-page leaflet published in 1989 by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France with a text by Jean-Claude Lemagny, General Curator, leaflet signed by Bruce Gilden and by Jean-Claude Lemagny.

Following a move, Bruce Gilden discovers in his personal archives hundreds of rolls and negatives of work done in New York, his hometown, between 1978 and 1984. Among these thousands of unpublished images that he had mostly never seen himself, Gilden selected about a hundred. Emerging from the desire to revisit his youth work, this historical archive, which surfaces forty years later like the Mexican Suitcase, constitutes an invaluable treasure. It sketches the portrait of a New York out of time and also reveals an unknown aspect of Gilden's work. In the full swirl of his thirties, he then set out without a flash (before becoming famous for his almost systematic use of it) to assault New Yorkers, in an atmosphere evidently tense that did not prevent him from leaping at a frenzied pace on whatever this scene, at once familiar and exotic, had to offer him. In this extraordinary gallery of portraits, the compositions, mostly horizontal, simmer with energy and abound with the most diverse characters, as if Gilden intended to include in the frame everything that caught his eye. In Lost & Found, one already perceives the thread that would make Bruce Gilden famous: continuous movement and tension, unparalleled ardor, instinctive and irreverent affection for his subjects – in perfect complicity with his city.

Copy in excellent condition, practically like new ). Book from my personal collection kept with the greatest care.. Shipping protected with reinforced packaging and insured international tracking. In case of multiple purchases possibility of grouped shipping with reimbursement of postage paid in excess via Paypal.

1.4 kg excluding packaging