Contemptuous about contemporary photography? Asleep looking at art photography? Bemused by the accompanying pretentious prose? How bad can it get? See below.

5 November 2009

sans titre by Ralph Gibson



(Copyright by Ralph Gibson)

"Says Gibson, "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 a old enough for me to believe in the subject."

Exhibited at Photo 4, Paris.