Ralph Gibson. Photographs 1960–2024

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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 more than six decades of image-making. ISBN 9783754402689 Edition: Multilingual (English, French, German) Hardcover, 21 x 27.5 cm, 2.65 kg, 552 pages Photography as Poetry Ralph Gibson’s photographic journey 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. Nudes, portraits, still lives, narratives—loyal to his Leica, Gibson ranges between genres and creates new categories of vi

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