Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/28

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Subject: [Leica] Ralph Gibson influence on my personal work?
From: "Albert Wang" <leica_phile@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:37:56 -0500

In reply to B.D. comment about how Ralph Gibson has influenced my 
"photographic eye," I do believe that he is a wonderful photographer with a 
sense of capturing images which few wouldn't bother shooting at. I truly 
believe that he is more of a surrealistic photographer like a 
photojournalistic Man Ray who went out and shoots strange setups and lots of 
"still life" settings. Even when he includes human figures, it's with a 
strongly detached mode.

I admire Ralph Gibson a lot. Although I tend to be more personal and 
humanistic. I think that his influence is very pervasive everywhere esp. 
when I read Huger Foote's book My Friend From Memphis. It's surrealistic 
street photography at its finest.

Ralph Gibson does something which few photographers do. He doesn't shoot 
tightly for every single shot and is able to include extraneous photographic 
elements. Seems to do a lot of free association amongst photos in visual 
puns too. I like him. he's the photographic James Joyce of our times.

Alfie

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