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You're right Will; I think Gilden's approach aims to obliterate the notion of privacy in public spaces but just comes across as a brash bloke ramming his camera and flash into strangers' faces, not all of them NYC socialites. Maier's much more sensitive handling is why I'll always prefer her work to his; seems to be to be an inherently macho pursuit for BG that characterizes a fair few male photographers. Raises all kinds of questions about public/private respect. I may be bastardizing the quote, but I love Winogrand's dictum that "I photograph to see what things look like photographed."