Background
Ralph H. Gibson was born on January 16, 1939 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Light Strings brings together two masters of their craft: photographer Ralph Gibson and former guitarist for the Police, Andy Summers. Gibson's enigmatic and sensuously elegant photographs are the visual counterpart to Summers' lyrical history and thoughtful exploration of the instrument's features. Together they create a unique poetic meditation on the guitar. Both artists pay attention to the form of the guitar and its relationship to the body; its curves echo the human figure, not only requiring it to be cradled to play it, but inviting a study of its own sumptuous anatomy.
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Ralph H. Gibson was born on January 16, 1939 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Ralph Gibson enlisted in the United States Navy in 1956 and became a Photographers Mate studying photography until 1960. He then continued his photography studies at the San Francisco Art Institute between 1960 - 1962.
Ralph H. Gibson began his professional career as an assistant to Dorothea Lange from 1961 to 1962 and went on to work with Robert Frank on two films between 1967 and 1968.
Since the appearance in 1970 of The Somnambulist, his work has been steadily impelled towards the printed page. In 1969 Ralph H. Gibson moved to New York, where he formed Lustrum Press in order to exert control over the reproduction of his work. Lustrum Press also published Larry Clark's Tulsa (1971). To date he has produced over 40 monographs, current projects being State of the Axe published by Yale University Press in Fall of 2008 and Nude by Taschen (2009). His photographs are included in over one hundred and fifty museum collections around the world, and have appeared in hundreds of exhibitions. He has worked exclusively with the Leica for almost 50 years.
Commissioned by Italian luxury label Bottega Veneta, Gibson photographed models Raquel Zimmermann and Mathias Lauridsen on locations in Milan for the brand's fall/winter 2013 advertisements.
In the summer 2016, on the occasion of the opening of the Galerie Thierry Bigaignon, Gibson presented an all-new series of photographs entitled "Vertical Horizon", in a colour departure from the black-and-white images for which he is celebrated.
Decorated Commander Ordre Arts et Lettres (France). Recipient Leica medal of excellence award, 1988, grand medal City of Arles, France, 1994, Silver Plumb award Design Trust for Public Space, 2000, Lucie award Lifetime Achievement for Fine Art Photography, 2007. Fellowship grantee National Endowment for Arts, 1973, 1975, 1986-1987, creative artists public service grantee New York State.
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