Bruce Gilden

Bruce Gilden's Beaten & Blown by the Wind is a limited-edition art book shot in Rome in collaboration with Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele, featuring a portfolio of street portraits alongside imagery from the Pre-Fall 2020 collection. Shot in high-contrast black and white, the work captures the city's humanity in all its variety, with Gilden's signature close-up portraiture interspersed with architectural details and observations of Roman life. The mood is brooding and stark, the cast eclectic, including model and advocate Bethann Hardison, singer Achille Lauro, and actress Benedetta Barzini. The book itself is a physical object worth noting: printed on textured off-white paper, bound in red velvet with gold foil lettering, and formatted in the spirit of vintage tomes, its luxurious presentation set in deliberate contrast to the raw, earthy nature of its contents.