Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In the 1994 issue of the Leica "Magic Moment", two photos of Ralph Gibson are featured including the cover. The provided bio is quoted directly from that magizine. "Ralph Gibson - born 1939 in Los Angeles, California. Gibson learned to take photographs in the US Marines and as an assistant of Dorothea Lange. In the 1960s he worked on two films of Robert Frank, moved to New York and opened a studio there in 1969. He photographed fashion for "Look" and photographic essays for the "New York" magazine. At the same time he founded his publishing company "Lustrum Press" in 1969, in which he published his books of photographs "The Somnambulist", "Deja-vu" and "Days at Sea". These made him a leading figure in artistic black-and-white photography in the 70s. At the end of the 70s he started taking color photographs for the first time. In the 80s Gibson began to move further and further away from the abstraction and strict formalism of his earlier work and to publish more spontaneous-type photographs. Ralph Gibson uses a Leica M6 and a 35mm lens." Rick Floyd