Ralph Gibson

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode…

— Ralph Gibson

I have been a photographer all my life....and have made photographs of many things and for many reasons. But one thing that…

— Ralph Gibson

Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the…

— Ralph Gibson

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

— Ralph Gibson

I'm too impatient to use a tripod.

— Ralph Gibson

It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually…

— Ralph Gibson

The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often…

— Ralph Gibson

“Passing from one dimension to another, he feels that nothing is left behind, but rather is always with him in the moment.…

— Ralph Gibson

My enthusiasm for joining the New York Film Academy is predicated on my personal explorations into video as well as a sense…

— Ralph Gibson

I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and…

— Ralph Gibson

When I was working with Robert Frank, he told me that there was absolutely no relationship between cinema and photography. I challenge…

— Ralph Gibson

One night I was on my [Navy] ship... on my first cruise crossing the North Atlantic in a horrible storm, chained to…

— Ralph Gibson

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in…

— Ralph Gibson