Ralph Gibson (b. 1939, Los Angeles) is one of the most interesting American photographers of our time. His images often incorporate fragments with erotic and mysterious undertones, building narrative meaning through contextualization and surreal juxtaposition.
Gibson has studied photography with the United States Navy and at the San Francisco Art Institute. He started his professional career as an assistant to Dorothea Lange and went on to work with Robert Frank.
Today his photographs are included in numerous museum collections around the world, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles among them.
His works have appeared in hundreds of national and international exhibitions. Gibson has worked exclusively with a Leica for almost 50 years. He currently resides in New York.
Sabine Schnakenberg is curator of the House of Photography/F.C. Gundlach Collection Hamburg, Germany.
Benjamin Wolbergs lives and works as an art director and editor in Berlin. His work as an art director includes over 100 books for art publishers. As an editor he is eager to find new inspiring themes in the field of art and design that have not yet been published.
