Ralph Gibson
 

L’ambivalence de Ralph Gibson

November 22nd, 2014

Ralph Gibson devient une étoile reconnue au faîte du ciel de la photographie. Une quarantaine de livres plus tard, il se trouve à Montréal cette semaine pour présenter une exposition de ses oeuvres qui prend l’allure d’une mini-rétrospective.

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artnet Asks: Photographer Ralph Gibson

August 5th, 2014

Ralph Gibson studied photography while in the United States Navy before attending the San Francisco Art Institute and working as an assistant to both FSA photographer Dorothea Lange from 1961 to 1962 and filmmaker Robert Frank on two separate films. Working primarily with the Leica camera, Gibson is most recognized for overlaying elements of film narrative and mystery onto the Surrealist subject of the female body. Fascinated with books, Gibson started the publishing house Lustrum Press in 1970 and has since published over 40 books, including Somnambulist and State of the Axe. Gibson is a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France (only given to those who have made significant contribution to the arts) and his work has been displayed in more than 150 venues worldwide. He lives and works in New York.

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Ralph Gibson's new book “MONO,” which features images taken with the Leica M Monochrom, was released on December 11 
at the Leica Store Lisse. Also announced at the event was the exclusive, limited edition Leica M Monochrom "Ralph Gibson."
Tuesday January 7, 2014

Ralph Gibson's new book “Mono,” which features images taken with the Leica M Monochrom, was released on last month at the Leica Store in  Lisse. Also announced at the event was the exclusive, limited edition Leica M Monochrom "Ralph Gibson."


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Legendary Photog Ralph Gibson Puts Images in Motion ... With His Own Music

Tuesday April 23, 2013

Next week at the Palm Springs Photo Festival, the legendary fine-art photographer Ralph Gibson will be leading a workshop in photographing the nude—a subject he’s abundantly familiar with. Gibson is perhaps best known for his fragmentary and furtive photographs of the human figure—the black-and-white images, built around bold light and dark shadow, are instantly recognizable to the legions of admirers who collect his prints and the more than 40 books he has published.
 
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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.

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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.
 
 

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.
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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.

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AMSTERDAM.- Kahmann Gallery presents the sales exhibition of the world renowned American photographer Ralph Gibson (1939, USA) as a special collaboration with Duncan Meeder, owner of Foto Henny Hoogeveen/ Leica and Transcontinenta to celebrate the launch of Gibson’s latest book Mono. Kahmann Gallery has the worldwide premiere of this exhibition, which opened today (December 12) and which will travel in 2014 on to all five continents. 

Ralph Gibson’s love affair with Leica started in 1961 at the age of 22, when he got hold of his first Leica camera. He was already trained as a photographer in the US Navy and San Francisco Institute of Art, before working as a photojournalist. He soon abandoned this though, and started to pursue more personal projects. In 1961-62 he worked as an assistant for the legendary Dorothea Lange, before working with the equally celebrated Robert Frank on several films. Since then, he has built up on illustrious career, spanning over five decades. 

For Gibson, photography isn’t about capturing a special event or a certain moment, but about making the most insignificant subject into a work of art. As he says himself: ‘…what I wanted to do, is be able to make my perception of anything become the subject itself. And for this reason I’ve attempted to take pictures of simple things, you know, like a cardboard box, or a chair, or a spoon. Very humble objects. I’m not terribly drawn towards the epic event. I’d like to make something totally insignificant into an object of importance, by virtue of how photography works.’ Gibson’s extensive body of work is consequently filled with a wide variety of themes, but what connects all these ideas all together is a wholly personal point of view, recognizable in every single photograph, be it a corner of a table or a nude portrait. 

Gibson is a prolific producer of photo books and has produced forty monographs to date. His work has been included in the collections of over 150 museums, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Getty Museum in Los Angeles, The Victoria & Albert in London and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. 

A world tour has been scheduled that will include a show at the famous 798 art district in Beijing. All prints in the Mono exhibition are for sale. The Mono book is also available for the duration of the exhibition at Kahmann Gallery.