Bruce Gilden
[Photographer, b. 1946, Brooklyn, New York, lives in New York.]
If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it’s a street photograph. 
I’m photographing myself out there. Not myself physically, but mentally. It’s my take on the world. I always said it kept me alive—photography—because it did. It was my catharsis. I’m known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.