Ralph Gibson Nude Art ed. 'Palm Beach' - Tapa dura

This title presents endless beauty of the female form. Presented in a custom slipcase and limited to 100 copies, each numbered and signed by the photographer, this Art Edition comes with one of two photographic prints. A decade after his first Taschen book, "Deux ex Machina", Ralph Gibson is back with an extensive and essential collection of nudes, including his best recent work as well as an interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly contrasted and meticulously composed, Gibson's photographs pay tribute to some of the medium's greatest practitioners, such as Man Ray and Edward Weston, while venturing into uncharted waters. Gibson says, 'A Photographer once said that beauty in women is endless. Perhaps it was I who said it. In fact, I remember distinctly having done so...and the thought persists to this day. We stare in the psychological mirror of the human body with a fascination that endures indefinitely. At least art history indicated this to be so. "The Willendorf Venus" is said to date from 25,000 BC...that is old enough for me to believe in the subject. I love photographing women and could say that the form of the female body is absolute and perfect'.

Ralph Gibson began taking pictures while serving in the U.S. Navy in the 1950s; after studying photography at the San Francisco Art Institute he went on to work as an assistant to Dorothea Lange and Robert Frank before establishing his own studio in New York. The recipient of NEA and Guggenheim grants, Gibson was made an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 1986. Eric Fischl is an internationally renowned figurative painter and sculptor. Born in New York and educated in Arizona and California, he is currently based in the New York area with his wife, painter April Gornik.