Infanta by Gibson, Ralph - 1991

Takarajimasha Inc, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x0x12. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. 4to. 119pp.

Takarajima Books, 1995. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 31 x 27.5 cm. Quarto. 119pp. Black cloth in dust jacket. 115 duotone photographs. Toning to the jacket.

National Book Network, 0000-00-00. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

Takarajima Books, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/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

Hardback. Very Good.

New York: Takarajima Books, 1995. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Gibson, Ralph (photos). 119pp.; HB blk.w/silver; slight rub w/dent,bttm.edge; lt.stain,foredge; clean,tight pgs. DJ gray&blk.w/white-photocover; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; 2"tear,bttm.edge. "The 115 images, produced betweeen 1988 and 1994 honor the ineluctable mystique of women's bodies as depicted by Velazquez and Manet while reflecting Gibson's current aesthetic concerns." isbn 188348913X

New York: Takarajima Books. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. American photographer Ralph Gibson has assembled 115 full page b&w photographs taken between 1988 and 1994 depicting nude women that reveal the "fascination of seeing ourselves reflected in the psychological mirror of the human body." Introduction by Alexandra Anderson-Spivy & Afterword by Mary Gaitskill. Original black cloth publisher's covers with silver spine lettering. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no previous owner names and no bookplates. The dust jacket has a bit of light shelf wear to the rear (visible under certain lighting conditions) and a trifle bit of wear to bottom at the spine, else it has no chips or tears. No indication of the edition; assumed first edition. ; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 119 pages .

New York: Takarajima Books, 1995. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Gibson, Ralph (photos). 119pp.; HB blk.w/silver; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. DJ gray&blk.w/white-photocover; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners-heavier wear on spine. "The 115 images, produced betweeen 1988 and 1994 honor the ineluctable mystique of women's bodies as depicted by Velazquez and Manet while reflecting Gibson's current aesthetic concerns.

Brussels:: Galerie Eric Van de Weghe,. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. Black and white photographs throughout. First edition. Near fine in a very good (minor edge wear, rubbing) dust jacket. .

Takarajima Books, 1995. 1st. Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good. Book is in excellent clean condition. DJ has a little shelf wear and rubbing.