You're bidding on two books by Bruce Gilden. Bruce Gilden was born in 1946 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. After taking photography classes at the School of Visual Arts, he embarked on his first major project: recording tourists and pleasure-seekers visiting Coney Island. Gilden is probably best known for his work on the streets of New York, focusing on the city’s characters and outsiders, but he has also spent many years on projects devoted on projects in Haiti, Japan, and Ireland. Bruce Gilden – Hey Mister, Throw Me Some Beads! Publisher: Kehrer, 2015 Hardcover, 110 pages Size: 24x32cm New in seal »Hey Mister, throw me some beads!« is a phrase that is iconic in New Orleans’ Mardi Gras street argot. Strings of beads, doubloons, and other trinkets are passed out or thrown from the floats in the Mardi Gras parades to spectators lining the streets. In 1974, Bruce Gilden was a young photographer when he first went down to Mardi Gras to shoot his first personal essay away from his home city New York. But when Gilden first stepped foot in New Orleans, he found himself in »a pagan dream where you can be what you want to be.« So Gilden became a regular, making seven trips down to the mayhem of Bourbon Street between 1974 and 1982. The energy, the mentality, social / cultural mores of Mardi Gras were all new for Gilden, but he captured the carnival crowds with the same raw intensity and poignancy that characterize his most iconic New York street photographs. A Complete Examination Of Middlesex AMC, 2013, 1st edition Hardcover, 104 pages, English 33.5x22.5cm New in seal “What I’m searching for when I walk the street are people I can engage with: somebody whose face, and particularly eyes, scream a story.” – Bruce Gilden In 2011, Bruce Gilden was commissioned by the Archive of Modern Conflict to photograph the people and places of London. Working in both colour and black and white, Bruce Gilden captured the diversity of characters that populate the streets of London. It’s rare to see portraits which are so intense, full on yet intimate at the same time. The resultant book, published by The Archive Of Modern Conflict is entitled A Complete Examination of Middlesex. Bruce Gilden, has exhibited widely around the world, and received numerous awards. What sets him apart from other photographers is his ability to see and capture the essence of a character, a place or a moment. Bruce Gilden joined Magnum Photos in 1998. He now lives in New York State.