- Ralph Gibson
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birthdate = Birth date and age|1939|1|16
location = Los Angeles, CA
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nationality = American
field = Photography
training = San Francisco Art Institute
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awards = Guggenheim FellowshipRalph Gibson (b.
January 16 ,1939 ,Los Angeles , California) is an American artphotographer best known for his photographic books. His images often incorporate fragments with erotic and mysterious undertones, building narrative meaning through contextualization andsurreal juxtaposition.Gibson took up photography while serving in the
U.S. Navy (1956-60), studied at theSan Francisco Art Institute (1960-62), and later worked as an assistant toDorothea Lange andRobert Frank . With Frank, Gibson worked on the film "Me and My Brother" (1967-69) and as cameraman on "Conversations in Vermont" (1969). That same year he moved to New York City, where he established his personal studio. Gibson has received fellowships from theNational Endowment for the Arts (1973, 1975) and theJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1985), a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (daad) Exchange, Berlin (1977), a New York Creative Artists Public Service Grant (1977), and a Grande Medaille de la Ville d'Arles (1994). He was made an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government (1986) and awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Maryland (1991).Gibson currently divides his time between New York and France.
elected works
* "The Somnambulist" Lustrum Press, 1970; part 1 of a trilogy
* "Déjà-Vu" Lustrum Press, 1973, part 2 of a trilogy
* "Days at Sea" Lustrum Press, 1975, part 3 of a trilogy
* "Syntax" (1983)
* "Tropism" (1987)
* "L'Anonyme" (1987)
* "L'Histoire de France" (1991), introduction by Marguerite Duras.
* "State of the Axe: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words" (2008), Museum Fine Arts Houston, Foreword by Anne Wilkes Tucker; Preface by Les Paul.ee also
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Guggenheim Fellowship External links
* [http://www.ralphgibson.com Official website]
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