| Dates: | 1939, 16 January - | | Born: | US, CA, Los Angeles | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Male | | Website: | www.ralphgibson.com |
American photographer.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
In 1969 Gibson founded Lustrum Press, which during the 1970s published an unconventional collection of books. The Lustrum line included Robert Frank, Larry Clark, instructional books, and Gibson’s dream-like trilogy of photo-novels The Somnambulist (1970), Deja-Vu (1973), and Days at Sea (1974). Gibson’s grainy, tightly composed, high-contrast 35 mm work reflects the minimalist impulse to eliminate extraneous detail and get down to the essentials of producing a non-literal, but visually complex, yet beautiful symbolic system, often sexually charged, enigmatic settings beyond the realm of empirical thinking.
(Author: Robert Hirsch - Independent scholar and writer)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
(Used with permission)
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Gibson, R., 1970, The Somnambulist, (Lustrum Press) [Δ]
Gibson, R., 1973, Deja-Vu, (Lustrum Press) [Δ]
Gibson, R., 1974, Days at Sea, (Lustrum Press) [Δ]
Gibson, R., 1999, Deus Ex Machina, (Köln: Taschen) [Δ]
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com | |
Family history
If you are related to this photographer and interested in tracking down your extended family we can place a note here for you to help. It is free and you would be amazed who gets in touch.
alan@luminous-lint.com |
|
The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
Photographic collections are a useful means of examining large numbers of photographs by a single photographer on-line.
|
|
