INTERVIEW
Ralph Gibson - Un maître du nu

This month Taschen is publishing a new book by the American photographer Ralph Gibson featuring some of his best nudes. Deftly composed and subtly provocative, these dreamlike and abstract photographs take a refined approach to nudity. Gibson trained his lens on every part of the female body, from the hidden and intimate to the most obvious. Some parts of the body are overshadowed by the simple beauty of the texture of the skin. But some refuse to be eclipsed.   READ THE INTERVIEW HERE

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DAS ÄLTESTE THEMA DER KUNSTGESCHICHTE

"Mit "Nude" hat der Taschen-Verlag dem US-Fotografen Ralph Gibson einen monumentalen Bildband gewidmet. art sprach mit Gibson über die Venus von Willendorf, die Intimität der Bilder und surrealistische Erotik.

FULL ARTICLE HERE (In German)

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NEW YORK-based photographer Ralph Gibson is returning to Sydney for the first time in 20 years with an exhibition of his distinctive black-and-white work.

His photographs have been shown in more than 150 institutions - including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Australian National Gallery - during his 50-year career and are shot exclusively on film, using a Leica 35mm camera.

Gibson focuses on architecture and the human form, and is well known for his embrace of the abstract, as demonstrated in San Francisco, pictured.

"I exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality," says the artist, whose exhibition Ralph Gibson - 50 Years is at Sydney's Point Light Gallery until November 11. Gibson will also give a one-hour keynote lecture at the Art Gallery of NSW tomorrow, discussing key images from his career and explaining his rejection of the use of digital photography.

 

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Review: At High Museum, photographer Ralph Gibson’s mysteries of visual severance

As much as any American photographer of the generation that came to artistic maturity in the 1970s — a generation in the thrall of the dissimulations with which so-called straight photography is uniquely capable — Ralph Gibson has built a career from a preoccupation with the artistic possibilities of visual severance. The High Museum of Art’s current show, “Quartet: Photographs by Ralph Gibson,” on view through January 22, surveys that preoccupation as it has taken shape over more than 40 years.

 

Read the full review

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Come to Bangkok and 
show me what you see

A personalised photographic treatment sees the capital 
through the eyes of artists from around the world

7/5/2012

An exhibition at Le Meridien, Bangkok, titled ''A New Perspective on Photography: A Look through Bangkok'', is the result of a three-day workshop with renowned lensman Ralph Gibson and nine photographers from Thailand, Cambodia, India, China and Hong Kong.

''I was able to speak to the photographers equally, in the same boat,'' said Gibson about leading the workshop, an initiative by the hotel chain to support emerging creative minds and give hotel guests exposure to new insights and perspectives. ''Though maybe I've been in the boat longer.''

The young photographers had been invited to learn Gibson's techniques for shooting street scenes, architecture, sculpture and night photography, and to learn about camera handling and lenses. From March 19 to 21, they toured local attractions such as the Grand Palace, the Golden Mount and street markets by day and night to capture the city.

FULL ARTICLE

 

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