Named for one of the most intellectually challenging board games in the world, played primarily in China, Japan, and Korea by players who use black and white stones to acquire territory, Go presents Bruce Gilden's photographic explorations of the darker side of Japan. In striking, full-page, black-and-white images, Gilden documents the brutal reality of a Japanese street. In-your-face pictures of Yakuza (mobsters), Bosozoku (members of biker gangs), and street people--characters who are alternately intimidating, bloodied, tattooed, frightening, and disheveled--are sporadically interspersed with manga cartoons for a revelatory glimpse at a Japan that looks nothing like its familiar image of calm, orderly, hyper-efficient perfection.
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Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946, Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden began exhibiting in 1971 and has since shown his work in galleries and museums the world over. He has received numerous grants and awards including three National Endowments for the Arts Fellowships, a Villa Medicis Hors les Murs, a New York State Foundation for the Arts Grant, the European Award for Photography, and a Japan Foundation Fellowship. His previous publications include "Facing New York", "Bleus", "Haiti", and "After The Off".
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Yakusa or your life,
This review is from: Bruce Gilden: Go (Hardcover)
This (Coffee table Style Photo) Book documents various Characters from the "Yakusa" - The Japanese Mafia-style gangster community in their habitat of the Streets of Japan. Bruce Gilden has captured the kind of lifestyle these people lead in his gritty, at times disturbing (and sometimes quite bizarre) book. The photos tell a story in a single frame, and leave you with a different view of a Japan that we normally see as Hi-Tech and Prosperous. My only criticsm of the book would be, having met Bruce (at the book launch) it would have been good to include a few comments about the pictures from him, as he has a VERY dry and critical sense of humour. His Pictures convey so much truth and visual style, I think a few words would have been the icing on a very Bittersweet cake.A Beautifully bound, Well designed Photojournalistic Book.
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a modern masterwork of new journalism,
By jack kerr (northport, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bruce Gilden: Go (Hardcover)
this is a great book. gilden has gone into an unknown territory here, away from his overcomfortable new york and into the streets and underground clubs of japan. this is a perfect example of the kind of new photojournalism that is the best of what the once great magnum still has to offer. (see luc delahaye for other examples, although he left the agency a few years ago)
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