Untitled (Self-Portrait)
50.0 x 40.0 cm
Museo Michael C. Carlos
Ralph Gibson (1939 –)
Ralph Gibson: Fotógrafo estadounidense reconocido por su surrealismo monocromo, explorando temas de erotismo, misterio y abstracción geométrica. Descubre obras maestras como 'El Somnambulista' y libros innovadores que capturan la esencia de una sensibilidad artística única.
Museo Michael C. Carlos (Atlanta, Estados Unidos de América)
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Gibson grew up in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s where his father worked as an assistant director to Alfred Hitchcock and where Gibson himself frequently worked as a child actor. The mark of this early experience can be seen in the high-contrast, grainy quality of his photographs. Other formal devices that contribute an air of mystery to his pictures are the intimate close-up, the tight focus on a fragmentary detail, the play of positive and negative space, and his use of deep black shadow. His photographs are more surreal dreamscapes than documents of reality. Gibson has summarized his aesthetic as a desire to make photographs that are
Detalles de la obra
- Título: Untitled (Self-Portrait)
- Artista: Ralph Gibson
- Dimensiones originales: 50.0 x 40.0 cm
- Estado de derechos de autor: Protegido por derechos de autor
- Dónde verla: Museo Michael C. Carlos