SIGNED Bruce Gilden Only God Can Judge Me Limited Ed Addicts Homeless Portrait

Description: Bruce Gilden Only God Can Judge Me SIGNED Bruce Gilden Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE United Kingdom. Browns Editions, London. 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Printed Boards. No dust jacket as issued. SIGNED by Bruce Gilden on the white preliminary page. Tall folio. Limited Edition of 700 copies. Unpaginated 56 pages. Full bleed color photos. With one gatefold. Very good plus. Only God Can Judge Me, by Bruce Gilden looks deeply into the faces of women afflicted with unfortunate personal circumstances, such as homelessness and addiction. In the faces of these women he finds mirrors of his own mother’s difficult past. Here, in his own words, Gilden explains why this body of work resonates with him. As I traveled through America, I noticed the same pattern in many cities: in the bad areas, I saw women, generally young and generally pretty who were drug addicts – and I’m talking serious heroin or crack addicts. They were a shell of themselves, and many of the women that I spoke to confessed that they had resorted to prostitution. This struck me very deeply, bringing back memories of my youth. In all of these women, I see my own mother – ravaged by pharmaceutical drugs, alcohol and her lifestyle. I found myself drawn to the areas where these women hung out, and I began asking them if I could photograph them. This was the genesis of my Point of No Return project, which later became Only God Can Judge Me. For me, this project is very cathartic because it took me my whole life to finally be able to deal with what happened to my mother. She committed suicide and I didn’t do anything to help her. It’s something that’s always been in the back of my mind, embedded in my subconscious. What happened to my mother resonates deep into myself, and to this day I still cry over it. Only now do I find that I have the courage to face it. In the portraits I take of these women I find echoes of my mother’s story. When I’ve spoken to women with an addiction, I don’t proselytize, I ask them, especially the young ones, Boy, how do you get into a position like this? I say, I know you’re gonna stop when you wanna stop, but you know you’re really playing a losing hand. But I guess you know that already. And, of course, they go on because they’re not listening to me. The drugs overtake everything. I understand that. I want to continue this project and attract attention to them and to what drugs did to them. It’s always interesting when people say that they have trouble looking at these faces. This can happen to anyone’s loved one. Just imagine you have to look at your mother’s face. It's art, it's today's news, it's a freak show, and it's 2018 America. Very good plus. Minimal wear to the boards. Few stray white dots to the inside cover and first free endpaper. Beautiful clean photographs. Tight binding. SIGNED Bruce Gilden.

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