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This complete retrospective presents 92 of Ralph Gibsons most significant photographic images. His raw materials are the lines and shapes of seemingly mundane objects — a street lamp, the back of a chair, a wine bottle, a human silhouette. Based on a reductivist, grainy black-and-white technique, his photography is richly metaphorical rather than documentary. Gibson's fragmented images draw the viewers attention to the design and composition of pictorial details, then effortlessly expand to allow a host of potent visual and psychological responses. 200 pp., 92 duotone plates, 9 1/4 x 12", Hardbound.
