id: 159054 accession number: 1995.256 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.256 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:28.337000 Los Angeles: Untitled, 1963. Ralph Gibson (American, 1939-). Gelatin silver print; image: 31.9 x 21.5 cm (12 9/16 x 8 7/16 in.); paper: 35.5 x 27.7 cm (14 x 10 7/8 in.); matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Adam Sutner 1995.256 © Ralph Gibson title: Untitled title in original language: series: Los Angeles series in original language: creation date: 1963 creation date earliest: 1963 creation date latest: 1963 current location: creditline: Gift of Adam Sutner copyright: © Ralph Gibson --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Ralph Gibson (American, 1939-) - artist Ralph Gibson American, 1939- Ralph Gibson is best known for his photographic books. His images often incorporate fragments with erotic and mysterious undertones, building narrative meaning through surreal juxtaposition and contextualization. Characteristic of his sensibility is a trilogy, The Somnambulist (1970), Déjà-Vu (1973), and Days at Sea (1975), published by Lustrum Press, which Gibson founded in 1969. Other titles from his more than 15 published monographs include Syntax (1983), Tropism (1987), L'Anonyme (1987), and L'Histoire de France (1991), with an introduction by Marguerite Duras. Born in Los Angeles, Gibson took up photography while serving in the U.S. Navy (1956–60), studied at the San Francisco Art Institute (1960–62), and later worked as an assistant to both Dorothea Lange and Robert Frank. With Frank, Gibson worked on the film Me and My Brother (1967–69) and as cameraman on Conversations in Vermont (1969). That same year he moved to New York City, where he established a studio and his press. Gibson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1973, 1975) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1985), a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (daad) Exchange, Berlin (1977), a New York Creative Artists Public Service Grant (1977), and a Grande Medaille de la Ville d'Arles (1994). He was made an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government (1986) and awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Maryland (1991). Gibson divides his time between New York and France. A.W. --- measurements: Image: 31.9 x 21.5 cm (12 9/16 x 8 7/16 in.); Paper: 35.5 x 27.7 cm (14 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "Ralph Gibson [signed] 1963 5/25" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Adam Sutner, Ft. Lee, NJ date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: March 4, 1996 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 182 url: --- IMAGES