Photographers Ralph Gibson and Mary Ellen Mark

 I adored both of these world class photographers and recall stocking all the Gibson books I could lay my hands on when first employed at MOMA Oxford and running the front of house Bookshop (The Somnambulist etc) I was introduced to the work of Gibson (amongst many) by local photographer and friend since 1977 Paddy Summerfield. 

Ralph Gibson     Photographer Mary Ellen Mark     1967

“A great photograph needs no explanation; it functions by suggestion. There is no need to be explicit.“ Mary Ellen Mark

Ralph Gibson     Photographer Mary Ellen Mark, New York City     1967

“Every photograph is the photographer’s opinion about something. It’s how they feel about something: what they think is horrible, tragic, funny.” Mary Ellen Mark