Desert Seen
The images are dense and bristling, where branches, cacti, and shadows collide in compositions that resist romanticism. Rather than depicting the desert as empty or serene, Friedlander renders it overflowing with tension, structure, and disorder.
Tropism: Photographs by Ralph Gibson, 1st Ed., Hard Cover, 26-year retrospective
Ralph Gibson is a renowned American photographer whose works have been lauded for their “voluptuous beauty” and “darkly glamorous” high-contrast images of the urban world. These quotes from the San Francisco Chronicle and New York Times appear in Tropism, a retrospective of Gibson’s work from 1960 to 1986, “the biographical record of (his) growth as an artist,” a commentator says. Gibson’s photographs are included in more than 150 museum collections around the world. This wonderful volume, with its stark close-ups of architectural elements and statues side-by-side with sultry nudes and wispy clouds is a must-have for serious collectors and casual admirers of superb photography alike.