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Book Making Workshop at Leica Store San Francisco

Friday, July 14th - Monday, July 17th, 2017 | Price: $2,500

This will be a 4-day workshop and will deal with the dummy as an object in and of itself. An object developed to the level of presentation for final publication. Aspects of layout, design, double-page spreads, book cover impact and editorial thrust as well as binding, typography, separation for plate-making, distribution formulas and more will be addressed. Each participant will be required to bring a laptop computer along with the necessary jpegs of their photographs to be placed in the dummy. A basic knowledge of a layout program such as InDesign is entirely recommended. The dummy pages will be printed with inkjet printers provided during the workshop. LEARN MORE / BOOK NOW

Lecture at Beijing Film Academy, China

New York Film Academy Lecture

The words were simple, yet dramatically impactful: “We are all in the same boat, I have just been in it longer,” said the world renowned photographer Ralph Gibson this past Saturday at the New York Film Academy’s campus at Battery Place in New York City. The crowd eased back into their seats now relaxed and eager to listen to more... FULL ARTICLE HERE

NYFA Open House

Each month the New York Film Academy’s various locations holds an Open House for applicants and those interested in learning more about the hands-on programs offered in each specific discipline. This past Open House at NYFA’s New York location offered an exclusive Photography Workshop with the Chair of Contemporary Photography, Ralph Gibson... FULL ARTICLE HERE

NYFA One on One with Ralph Gibson

This week at the Los Angeles Campus of the New York Film Academy College of Visual & Performing Arts (NYFA), students in the photography program and beyond, were treated to a day of instructive activities by the internationally renowned photographer, Mr. Ralph Gibson, who is the Chair of NYFA Department of Contemporary Photography.

All of the students in the MFA and BFA photography program had one-on-one critiques of their work with the Master, in which they each presented three of their images for discussion. The portfolio reviews continued in the afternoon when all long-term photography students had the great occasion to have their independent photography portfolios reviewed by Mr. Gibson.

FULL ARTICLE HERE

guitar moderne - The Zine for Adventurous Guitarists

As a budding photographer, I was thrilled when guitarist Brandon Ross introduced me to Ralph Gibson through Facebook. It turned out that Ralph is not just a world renowned photographer, with work on display at the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the J. P. Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA, but also an avid guitarist, as interested in the future of the instrument as we are...

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NYFA South Beach Open House with Ralph Gibson and Col. Jacobs

In a full room of prospective students, the New York Film Academy South Beach hosted an Open House with award-winning photographer Ralph Gibson and Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Jack Jacobs. Both Mr. Gibson and Colonel Jacobs have recently joined NYFA — Gibson as Chair of its Department of Contemporary Photography and Colonel Jacobs as Chair of Veteran’s Advancement Program. FULL ARTICLE

Etherton on the Road
Paris Photo Los Angeles

Book Signing - Sunday, May 3, 2015

Paramount Pictures Studios
Stage 32 - Stand 20
1 - 4 pm

Etherton Gallery returns to the historic Paramount Pictures Studios for the third year of Paris Photo Los Angeles, the action-packed SoCal version of Paris Photo, one of the most heralded international art fairs to showcase the art of photography. The gallery is delighted to present another of its popular solo exhibits with remarkable American photographers, this year showcasing Ralph Gibson's photographs taken during an extraordinary fifty-year career. Known for his beautiful, graphic, often mysterious images, Gibson's distinct female nudes — shown here for the first time in a large-scale format — both contain and free the female body, with an elegant, electric edge that enunciates the female form in a decidedly Gibsonesque voice. On Sunday May 3, Gibson will be signing his out-of-print, outsized retrospective book, Nude, published by Taschen in 2012.

Kahmann Gallery Opening
Amsterdam 2013

Ralph Gibson on TV Cronopios (Brazil)
Watch here: www.cronopios.com.br/site/artigos.asp?id=5721

"At Palm Springs, Gibson, a noted Leica user, will be shooting with a new piece of equipment—a “Ralph Gibson” signature Leica M Monochrom camera, with which, he said in a recent interview, he hopes to create very specific types of images for a very specific purpose. “I have an idea of the figure, where I’m going to have a 90mm lens on the Leica M, and I’m going to abstract the figure—you’re going to know that what I’m shooting are body parts, but they are going to be moving in and out of the frame, in and out of the focal plane. And that’s going to be my next film.

Film—not book."

FULL ARTICLE HERE

WBAI Interview, April 12, 2013
http://archive.wbai.org/files/mp3/wbai_130412_140000nonfiction.mp3

Seminar and Performance at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, March 24-28

Performance of Music for Lens and Guitar in 5 Parts at the Bruchfield-Penny Art Center, Buffalo NY Jan. 2013

BOOK SIGNINGS

NUDE, Taschen 12/4/12