Taschen publishes Ralph Gibson : Photographs 1960-2024.
Nudes, portraits, still lives, narratives: loyal to his Leica, Ralph Gibson- ranges between genres and creates new categories of vision. The most comprehensive collection of this highly acclaimed and prolific American photographer, this book offers the fruit of six decades of image-making.
Travelling widely, Ralph Gibson works primarily in inspired series, associated image reveries in both monochrome and colour, whose titles — The Somnambulist, Déjà-Vu, Days at Sea, and Chiaroscuro — underline the particular poetic sensibility that informs his work. Starting out in 1960 with Dorothea Lange, he made his way to New York in 1967 and was soon considered in the same light as the likes of Larry Clark and Diane Arbus. The photographs and series can of course speak for themselves. But for Gibson there is a philosophy at play behind the image, and in the included short texts he proposes his thesis. He gets closer to things and meditates on them in a way that only the silence of the image can attempt. From Gibsonʼs first photographs in San Francisco, Hollywood, and New York in the 1960s right up to the present day, this is the most comprehensive collection of this highly acclaimed photographer.
Ralph Gibson began taking pictures while in the U.S. Navy in the 1950s, and later assisted Dorothea Lange and Robert Frank before establishing his own studio in New York. The recipient of NRA and Guggenheim grants, Gibson was made a Commandeur de loErdre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2002.
Ralph Gibson : Photographs 1960-2024
Taschen
Hardcover
552 pages
Multilingual edition: English, French, German
ISBN 978-3-7544-0268-9
€ 60
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