Who is Ralph Gibson?

              


Ralph Gibson is an American photographer that is known for his photographic books and working in black-and-white images. As I read up on him I am seeing people refer to his images as having "erotic subject matter"and "mysterious" but I don't see it. In his images I don't see anything compared to Micheal Keena. Keena really displayed that mysterious look in his photographs by it looking sharp and coming in from all angels. 

His main focus in his work is to communicate "contextualization" and "surreal juxtaposition." I actually think surrealism is kind of cool. I specially like it in drawings and painting but I question how people are able to do in photographs. I don't like surrealism as much in photographs as in drawings but it still looks somewhat cool to see what people are able to accomplish with people or objects they use. 

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