Contact | Season 1 Episode 7 | Bruce Gilden - Yakuza

Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, revealed by the irreverent look of Bruce Gilden. The photographer that made of the road his main inspiration.

[@ayrtonkaleo]

Bruce Gilden is one of the best.

[@paulyricca3881]

🥃👴🏻 THE GREATEST

[@andrewsmithphoto]

Such an informative video, sad to see it does not have many views. I will have to check out the rest of the series.

[@paulyricca3881]

🥃👴🏻 BRUCE GOT THAT TRUE BROOKLYN FLAVOR KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK BRO

[@EphemeralProductions]

He’s so cute and funny. :). And he really is a genuinely amazing and ingenious photographer. (And i love that his Kitteh came to visit for awhile! :))

[@janeoram2460]

Incredible!

[@RichardSilvius]

As of this comment this video only has 265 likes. 25 minutes of Bruce Gilden talking about photography and only 265 likes. Where the hell is everybody???

[@DougGriggPhoto]

only 323 a year later too

[@Moodboard39]

Idk

[@jimshaw5450]

You are inspiring. Jim

[@sirlordcomic]

Its funny he said he wasn't a big fan of Antonioni but his framing is just in the style of Antonioni. The photo at 7:30 is a clear example. Maybe we aren't really aware of our influences?

[@GS-vb3zn]

Because he’s a liar?

[@EphemeralProductions]

Yep i think you’re right. We often don’t realize what we’ve internalized

[@spencerkimura]

This video has no dislikes. That says so many things beyond just liking the video

[@chumleyk]

You might not like the guy, I'm not a fan of his personality, but it's just that that is the key to unlock access to each of the opportunities to take each picture, the moment and the subject. Sadly, so many antisocial kids pretend to be him when they take up photography. Too late kids, he did it so you don't have to.

[@rembeadgc]

To Gilden, regarding the laughing young woman who lost her leg...in my book, her laughter, particularly under those circumstances, is evidence of God, and oddly enough, her laughter probably would not be as meaningful to her or to you had she not suffered such a tragedy. As you should well know, as a photographer, the beauty that transcends ugliness is the most meaningful...and for a reason that none of us authored.

[@KaleWB]

Lol

[@GS-vb3zn]

He's not a photographer. He's a man with a camera who has perfected one technique- shove a camera into an unsuspecting passerby's face, shoot with an off the camera flash, making sure to use a focal length that distorts and... Presto! You have a Gilden grotesque. He sucks.

[@Skankhunt-mt5dy]

You're so miserable

[@pandapooh1668]

I think taking pictures when someone doesn’t know is fine, maybe just let them know after but if you get someone to pose for a picture it just becomes fake, taking a picture of someone who doesn’t know your doing that captures the true emotion a person is feeling in that moment, if they pose and smile it’s fake, they are putting on the face they want people to see instead of how they truly feel in that moment

[@jaspercaelan4998]

I agree, once you've seen one you've seen them all. They just look like random snapshots to me.

[@Juan-wo7zu]

Each person is unique, theatrical and intriguing, I disagree.

[@badcircle]

I appreciate the argument, but this technique allows him to capture snapshots of people before they realize a photograph is being taken. They're up-close, not-posed snapshots of interesting characters. I don't really like the way he gets these shots but I'm glad they exist.

[@johnaimee7642]

To be honest seen better street photog on facebook just good marketing

[@NR-gp2il]

It’s the crazy style of being up close that made Bruce Famous IMO. He’s pics / eye is nit that interesting for me

[@njrailfanner45]

Those photos are all shit because they have no story or meaning.

[@keybladesss]

something tells me the images you are talking about are more glamerized images not real life emotion and story of the people