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Ralph Gibson, Knight of the French Legion of Honor

The President of France has just appointed Ralph Gibson to the rank of knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor.

The insignia were given to him by Françoise Nyssen, Minister of Culture, during an official ceremony held on Monday, June 11, 2018 at the Thierry Bigaignon Gallery.

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Ralph Gibson à la lisière du réel

Né à Los Angeles en 1939, Ralph Gibson arrive à New-York en 1966. Il s'installe dans le célèbre hôtel Chelsea où se croisent à l'époque les acteurs de la vie artistique new-yorkaise. Il vit de façon précaire, lit les écrivains français du nouveau roman, voit les films de Bergman....

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L'oeuvre onirique du photographe américain Ralph Gibson exposée à Montpellier

Le Pavillon populaire de Montpellier propose à partir de mercredi une somptueuse échappée dans l'oeuvre onirique, intime et mystérieuse de Ralph Gibson, un des plus grands noms de la photographie américaine contemporaine. Intitulée "Ralph Gibson. La Trilogie, 1970-74", l'exposition visible jusqu'au 7 janvier 2018, est constituée de 130 tirages noir et blanc à forts contrastes, reprenant pour la première fois l'ensemble des trois recueils du maître du surréalisme et de l'abstraction en photographie.

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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

TEDx Fulbright Santa Monica

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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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."

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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