Ralph Gibson Quotes

• I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Reality, Order

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• Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Eye, Media

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• I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

  Ralph Gibson

  Want, Shapes, Abstract

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• I'm too impatient to use a tripod.

  Ralph Gibson

  Use, Impatient, Tripods

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• I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and practice it. And so every photograph becomes another subtle variation on the theme of the medium itself.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Believe, Practice

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• I have been a photographer all my life....and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that becomes more and more apparent is that I am simply only as good as my next photograph. That's the one that counts the most....For this reason I find it a delight to face a new day, and to develop that new roll of film. It's a great way to live.

  Ralph Gibson

  New Day, Way To Live, Delight

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• When I was working with Robert Frank, he told me that there was absolutely no relationship between cinema and photography. I challenge that. Surely what you know as a photographer must impact how you set up your shots.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Impact, Challenges

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Perception, Different

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during this period. Then as time passes one finds oneself more in the role of serving the medium... Then, as in the example of several masters that I have been privileged to know personally, it appears that by having devoted oneself totally to the medium, one becomes photography.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Years, Crafts

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• Una noche estaba en mi barco [de la Marina]... en mi primer crucero cruzando el Atlántico Norte en medio de una horrible tormenta, encadenado a las barandillas para no caerme por la borda. En medio de los relámpagos, los truenos y el granizo, en medio de la miseria, grité al cielo con mi vocecita chillona y dije: "Algún día seré fotógrafo". Fue una epifanía tan grande como ninguna otra.

  Ralph Gibson

  Fall, Night, Men

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• Tradicionalmente, la fotografía se ha ocupado de registrar el mundo tal y como lo encontramos. Antes de que apareciera la fotografía, los artistas de la época, pintores y escultores, se dedicaban a plasmar la realidad con la mayor fidelidad que les permitía su destreza. La fotografía, sin embargo, hizo que la realidad artística fuera mucho más accesible, más rápida y a una escala mucho más amplia.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Artist, Reality

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• My enthusiasm for joining the New York Film Academy is predicated on my personal explorations into video as well as a sense of responsibility to share my extended experience of photography with committed students in both mediums.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, New York, Responsibility

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