Coney Island

Coney Island, Sneaking Pictures and Seeing Everything: Jem Cohen Interviews Leon Levinstein (1988)

“One thing I always try to do, if possible, is never to speak mildly or softly. I don’t think any photographer should. You should speak loud and clear. And that’s the way I try to take my pictures.” Jem Cohen: In the mid-1980s, when I first came to New York and lived with my […]

Bruce Gilden – “Coney Island – The Maquette” (2012)

An Interview with Bruce Gilden – Spontaneity, Elegance and Being Yourself

“But since I work in a spontaneous way, I have to be a little bit sneaky because I don’t want them to know that I’m going to take a picture of them.” Interview with Bruce Gilden, PBS, The Arts Show EGG: How do you describe yourself as a photographer? Bruce Gilden: I guess I’d be […]