Infanta
by Ralph Gibson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 188348913X
- ISBN 13
- 9781883489137
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
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
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 362512
- Title
- Infanta
- Author
- Ralph Gibson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 188348913X
- ISBN 13
- 9781883489137
- Publisher
- Takarajima Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Photography, Portraits, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
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