Between 1978 and 1984, photographer Bruce Gilden took to the streets of New York, shooting some 2,200 rolls of film. “Around that time I was a cocaine addict, but I think it started more heavily after ’81, ’82,’ he says. “I lived through that, but the city was rough, tough, raw, violent, filthy. But it had lots of soul. It was my kind of town. It was dangerous. I wrote that I devoured the city; I went everywhere.”
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Soon thereafter, Gilden started using a flash, shooting primarily on Fifth Avenue and Broadway, where fascinating characters turned out en masse. He filed the older works away inside his Mercer Street loft, only to rediscover most of them in 2015. “I uncovered an amazing body of work but the problem was that somehow I couldn’t find 250 rolls of film,” Gilden says. “This was very upsetting to me. But the bright side is that I found this body of work that would have been lost forever if I died.”
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