# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bruce-gilden
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:27:17.864Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bruce-gilden"
name: "Bruce Gilden"
slug: "bruce-gilden"
description: "Bruce Gilden is an American street photographer. He is best known for his candid close-up photographs of people on the streets of New York City, using a flashgun. He has had various books of his work published, has received the European Publishers Award for Photography and is a Guggenheim Fellow. Gilden has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1998. He was born in Brooklyn, New York."
tagline: "American photographer (1946- )"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruce_Gilden_Pinacoteca_Tosio_Brescia_2026.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1946-10-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.010282776349613
  historical:           10.53107066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2551644"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.brucegilden.com/"
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    title: "Bruce Gilden"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Gilden"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump