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Ralph Gibson: After 25 years, it's still a tough job

His beginnings as a photographer were in the Navy, at that time he used a “Rolleitlex” camera, then he worked with Dorothea Lang until he became a cameraman. One of the most famous publishing houses specializing in photography.
Like any young photographer, Ralph says, and as a beginner, I loved strolling in the streets with a camera and a Leica, “in my hand, looking for something that would point my attention, I didn’t know exactly what I was looking for. In 1962 I took a picture in San Francisco, it has some white lines and arrows. I like the picture. At that stage, I wanted to quit being a reporter, but I couldn't express my feelings in the picture. I studied, and after a period of development in my style at the end of the sixties, I was chasing a surreal vision of the world and capturing it in a picture. After that, my photos maintained their relationship with reality. My goal was not to make abstract photography, but rather to show the abstract side of what I photograph from this angle. I might be surreal. Art history plays an important role in my work. And Gibson continues his confessions: I always feel happy when I stroll in the streets. The camera C-shot I have been doing for 25 years in my country. But after 25 years of practice, the profession is still difficult because it always forces us to evolve. This is my personal opinion that does not oblige anyone, and it does not mean that every photographer should follow this path, but I personally have a continuous need


The photographer becomes the subject of the image itself, and the camera reflects the photographer's vision of the world. Sometimes we feel how deep that vision is, and at other times how superficial it is. I tried to eliminate the event in my photos. For example, in a large meeting that includes thousands of participants, some saw that it is the most important event, but for me, the event is when I see before my eyes what deserves to be photographed. We are now going through in the history of photography, a stage that the French call the stage of personal research. . completely
Such as personal research carried out by the world's leading artists and painters, such as Grote Dolasco. And those who painted on the ceiling of the «Sistine Cathedral», in the Vatican. I will continue to suggest the personality because it is the only method in which I believe and there are many ambiguous questions that search for answers, but with every film I put into the camera - Lika: “I imagine to create: a fetus, from the belly of the truth. Photography, in my view, is a form of salvation.”