Super RARE! Ralph GIBSON - New York 1974, Old Authentic Drawing Offset Print

Description: Sale!!! Super RARE! Ralph GIBSON - Christine, New York, 1974 Old Authentic Original Drawing Offset print Beautiful Famous photo! Size: 14.5 x 22.2 cm This is a print run controlled and validated on press by the client that the printer had archived as a color reference model and laminated to a support so that it can be preserved over time. A wonderful testimony to traditional art printing which unfortunately has completely disappeared today. Remarkable print, close to a photograph, with a beautiful shine, with very powerful and dense tones. Its rendering, contrast, its brightness, as well as its sharpness with sharp details, are absolutely magnificent. Print made in 1999 by a former art printer Archival model Printer two-tone printing enhanced with a glossy varnish This previously unpublished Validation Print was found deep in an assembly workshop in the archives of a former art printing house, carefully preserved flat and protected from light. Although it is old with its 25 years of age, it remains in a good state of conservation. Some marks and traces of dirt on the back due to the printer's handling. However, the front is intact, in excellent condition and of extraordinary shine. This old print comes from a first printing limited to a few copies in different tones, the customer selected one that he approved and validated as a “good to print” proof. It was kept by the printer and served as a color model for setting on the machine during reprints. When everything was compliant, the client signed the print which then became contractual, the client's approval committed the printer to obtaining an identical result for all the prints he had to produce. Christine's face in the corner of a brick wall, between shadow and light, front and profile, a photograph taken in New York by Ralph Gibson in 1974. He seems to like to create mystery by close-ups in lights raw, like a slice of overly lit decor, where the actors, like models, roam harmoniously while searching for their place and their role. “The shadow is at the heart of my work, it subtracts elements and information to keep only the essential. »Ralph Gibson Accustomed since his childhood, with his father, assistant to Alfred Hitchcock, he frequents film shoots, his photographs recreate a narrative climate close to that of cinema with introspective images, always in black and white and very contrasted. Always wishing to maintain his graphic independence, as a privileged support, he expresses in his photos, the fragmented body of a naked woman, a shadow which cuts a face, as well as the hands which often recur, like a leitmotif. In uninhabited and smooth spaces where time is suspended, bodies in sometimes lascivious poses, often affected, with or without symbolic accessories, recall surrealist images with a certain eroticism that accompanies them. In his portraits, his landscapes, and the buildings, a certain coldness emanates from his photographs, the geometry of the spaces or the sophisticated purity of the framing, largely contribute to the predominance of graphics. He does not take abstract photos, but only through his shots brings out the abstract that exists in everything, that is around us. “First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally you become photography. »Ralph Gibson His photographic series are part of a creative process, he adopts an approach that is both introspective and surreal. He goes out into the street to look for an image in everyday reality, like the walls he photographs, white, black, brick or concrete walls. He begins to photograph them in black and white then in color from red to blue, passing through green and yellow, a brick wall on a street corner becomes with Gibson, strange, magical and wonderful. Ralph Gibson (1939) American photographer, born in Los Angeles. He is the only son of Rita Vargas and C. Carter Gibson who lived just a stone's throw from Hollywood, his father working at Warner Bros. Pictures”. Cinema being part of his daily life, in his youth he obtained a few extra roles in films by Nicholas Ray and Alfred Hitchcock for whom his father became an assistant). After his parents divorced in 1954, he failed at school and left school a year later, becoming a mechanic for 6 months. In 1956, on his birthday, he enlisted in the United States Navy. He was then assigned to the Naval Photography School based in Pensacola, Florida where he acquired complete photography techniques. He will then begin to take portraits, aerial photos and documentary photos for the army. He will continually continue to learn other techniques such as producing printed publications, halftone negatives and sensitive halftone plates. It is from this moment that he will find his way and will never leave it. - he often tells the anecdote during his first crossing of the Atlantic, during a watch around three o'clock in the morning, in the middle of a storm, he looked out into the night and exclaimed: "One day I will be a photographer! ". This period in the army will also allow him to discover the world and during stopovers in New York, he will frequent jazz clubs and attend poetry readings by Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Jack Kerouac. He will finish his service in October 1959. Influenced by “On the Road” by J. Kerouac, he hitchhiked to Los Angeles in just four days. He will initially consider enrolling at the “Art Center” to learn commercial photography or fashion photography. But visiting a friend in San Francisco, he met students from the “San Francisco Art Institute” and immediately enrolled there, in order to continue his photography studies. In 1960, he moved to San Francisco in a low-end hotel in the center of the North Beach district and took only two semesters of courses, feeling confirmed in his vocation. He believes that the best way to become a photographer is not to stay in school but to be out in the field. Paul Hassel, a professor, then recommended him to Dorothea Lange who was looking for an assistant to be able to develop her negatives. While carrying out her personal work in parallel, the collaboration with the photographer will last a year and a half. He works with a Rolleiflex that he bought during his military service. His first exhibition will take place at the “Photographers' Roundtable”. In 1961, a technical change marked the rest of his career: he switched to a Leica, in the small 24x36 format, a camera, as he said, "the way to express what I wanted." From that day on, he adopted it definitively and never changed it. In 1962, he decided to return to Los Angeles to concentrate on his initial aspiration, photojournalism. Ralph Gibson began a career as an independent photographer, but he obtained few contracts and commissions. Despite everything, he was hired for several months by the "Cinerama Corporation", which was preparing the 1964 New York World's Fair. His first photos were published in 1963 in the San Francisco magazine "Nexus". From 1965 to 1966, he worked for several popular graphic designers; the “Kennedy Graphics” agency placed him with an order concerning the “Sunset Strip” district in LA. These photos led to the publication of his first work “The Strip”. Los Angeles giving him "the effect of a somewhat primitive city" which did not suit him, he moved to New York in the fall of 1966 with three Leicas in his suitcase and settled in the Chelsea Hotel with only 200 dollars in poached. The city of New York will then stimulate his imagination, considering it a paradise for photographers. He immediately obtained contracts and frequented circles of young artists. At the beginning of 1967, he met Robert Frank who made him his assistant for his current film project: “Me and my brother”. In 1968, he met Larry Clark and Mary Ellen Mark. His photographic practice changed profoundly: he moved away from photographic reporting and now expressed a rejection of commercial photography. Attracted by writers like Marguerite Duras or Jorge Luis Borges, by the new novel, atonal music or concrete poetry, he began to live at night and sleep during the day. He now considers photography to be the instrument of his introspection: his photos take a surrealist turn and he decides to bring them together in a book, “The Somnambulist”. But it would take him three years before he succeeded in publishing it: in 1969, he met several publishers with a completed model, but ultimately refused the offers made to him to maintain his editorial autonomy. He then created his own publishing house: “Lustrum Press”, thanks to which he finally published “The Somnambulist” in 1970 in 3000 copies. The reception was enthusiastic and the success was immediate. From this moment Ralph Gibson would become known and recognized in photographic circles. He will use the money earned from “The Somnambulist” to travel abroad. He traveled to Europe in 1971 and took numerous photos in France and England, including them in “Déjà Vu”, the second volume of his “Black Trilogy” after “The Somnambulist”. The last volume of the dark trilogy appeared in 1974 under the name “Days at Sea”. Gibson will receive NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. In 1977, he met Mary Jane Marcasiano who became his companion, his muse and the subject of many of his photographs. He will be represented many times at the “Rencontres d’Arles” through evenings and exhibitions in 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1989 and 1994. He will receive the mention of the “Book of the Rencontres d’Arles” prize in 1983 for “Syntax”. In 1986, he was named “Officier of the Order of Arts and Letters” by the French government. In 2007, he received a “Lucie Award” in New York. He currently still lives in New York. “I keep getting closer to the subjects I photograph, each year I gain a few centimeters. »Ralph Gibson Sale as is, no return. 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Price: 325 USD

Location: New York, New York

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