RALPH GIBSON

Limited to 1,000 copies, each numbered and signed by the photographer. A decade after his first TASCHEN book, Deux ex Machina, Ralph Gibson is back, with an extensive collection of nudes, including his best recent work as well as an interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly contrasted and meticulously composed, Gibsons photographs pay tribute to some of the mediums greatest practitioners, such as Man Ray and Edward Weston, while venturing into uncharted waters. Says Gibson: A photographer once said that beauty in women is endless. Perhaps it was I who said it. In fact, I remember distinctly having done soand the thought persists to this day. We stare in the psychological mirror of the human body with a fascination that endures indefinitely. At least art history indicated this to be so. The Willendorf Venus is said to date from 25,000 BCthat is a old enough for me to believe in the subject. I love photographing women and could say that the form of the female body is absolute and perfect.

In this, Ralph Gibsons 30th monograph, books themselves have become objects of fascination, examination, and veneration. From the early days of ancient Roman stone carvings to the revolutionary printing of the Gutenberg Bible through todays explosion of information on the Internet, Ex Libris chronicles the written record, offering a new interpretation of the signs, letter forms, shapes, and images used to document human history. Features images from the worlds greatest book collections and libraries, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris; the British Museum; the New York Public Library; the Pierpont Morgan Library; and the Cairo Museum.

Sensual y con un toque surrealista, la fotografía de desnudo de Ralph Gibson encuadra las formas femeninas con un enfoque orgánico y gráfico. Su trabajo remite a la historia del arte al tiempo que innova en el ambito de las imagenes eroticas. Las suyas provocan reacciones viscerales y piden ser acariciadas. Goce de este exquisito tributo a los contornos y las curvas del cuerpo femenino y de la intimidad que consigue crear y captar el fotografo con su objetivo. Reedicion de la agotada Edicion de Coleccionista de TASCHEN, este homenaje reune lo mejor de los exquisitos desnudos de Gibson junto con algunas de sus obras mas recientes en un formato accesible y actualizado que incluye una entrevista en profundidad de Eric Fischl. Sorprendentemente ilustrativas, meticulosamente compuestas y sutilmente provocadoras, las imagenes de este maestro, misteriosas y ensoñadoras, rinden homenaje a grandes nombres de la fotografia, como Man Ray y Edward Weston, al tiempo que buscan siempre ampliar los limites de la disciplina. Un fotografo afirmo una vez que la belleza de la mujer es infinita. Quiza fui yo mismo quien lo dijo. [...] Me encanta fotografiar a las mujeres y podria decir que la forma del cuerpo femenino es absoluta y perfecta. Ralph Gibson

Ralph Gibson es un fotógrafo viajero que trabaja principalmente con series introspectivas y asociaciones de imágenes, tanto en monocromo como en color, cuyos títulos ― The Somnambulist, Déjà-Vu, Da