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The subject of the nude has been a source of inspiration for artists since the earliest known representations. Ralph Gibson makes no secret of the passions that drive him: his love for photography and women; parallel affairs of the heart which meet in homage to the beauty of the female form. Infanta is a protracted study from one of the fine art photography's most acclaimed and influential practitioners.
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The female nude has long been an important subject for photographer Gibson, but in earlier books, his nudes appeared as elements in sequences of all kinds of images. With Infanta, Gibson abandons the sequencing, presenting instead a collection of big, rather simplified black-and-white images. Like Lee Friedlander in his Nudes (1991), in middle age Gibson expresses an intense fascination with the bodies of young women. Whereas Friedlander used the camera to awkwardly describe specific details, Gibson uses his to idealize beautiful body fragments. Gibson's high-contrast, grainy printing style and abstract compositions have hardly changed in two decades. Alexandra Anderson-Spivy's accompanying essay perceptively responds to Gibson's work, but Mary Gaitskill's vulgar afterword (the memoir of a stripper) seems jarringly inappropriate to the idealism of the photographs. Gretchen Garner
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Infanta: Photographs
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Condition: Very Good. Hardcover, 119 pages. The female nude has long been an important subject for photographer Gibson, but in earlier books, his nudes appeared as elements in sequences of all kinds of images. With Infanta, Gibson abandons the sequencing, presenting instead a collection of big, rather simplified black-and-white images. Like Lee Friedlander in his Nudes (1991), in middle age Gibson expresses an intense fascination with the bodies of young women. Whereas Friedlander used the camera to awkwardly describe specific details, Gibson uses his to idealize beautiful body fragments. Gibson's high-contrast, grainy printing style and abstract compositions have hardly changed in two decades. Alexandra Anderson-Spivy's accompanying essay perceptively responds to Gibson's work, but Mary Gaitskill's vulgar afterword (the memoir of a stripper) seems jarringly inappropriate to the idealism of the photographs. Record # 362512. Seller Inventory # 362512
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Infanta: Photographs Ralph Gibson
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Infanta: Photographs
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Takarajima Books, New York, 1995. Hardcover, 119 pp. Back & white images of women, female nudes & erotica by American photographer Ralph Gibson (born 1939). Fine condition in a near fine dust jacket. The jacket has a few lamination ridges, mostly on the rear panel. **Heavy or oversize Item. An extra shipping charge may apply.**. Seller Inventory # ABE-1725552187425
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