Ralph Gibson

2 unique large-format Polaroid Polacolor prints, one signed in ink on the image, framed, and with an Innovation/Imagination label on the reverse, 1979 (2)

Lisa (Nude in Profile):

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Instantanés, May - July 1980

San Francisco, The Friends of Photography, Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography, May - July 1999, and traveling to 11 other venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

These prints:

Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography (The Friends of Photography, 1999), p. 35

Instantanés (Centre Georges Pompidou, 1980), p. 25

Barbara Hitchcock, ed., Emerging Bodies: Nudes from the Polaroid Collection (Zurich, 2000), p. 92

These Polacolor prints are in generally excellent condition. The colors remain rich and saturated, with no apparent fading. Lisa (nude facing forward) - In raking light, a one-inch surface impression, not breaking the emulsion, is visible to the left of the sitter's hip. The lower margin appears to be trimmed and the annotation 'Polaroid Collection' is partially cut off. There are small triangles of clear tape in the margin corners. On the reverse of the print, there are stray graphite marks. Lisa (nude in profile) - This print is signed in ink on the image. In raking light, various superficial surface scuffs and scratches not breaking the emulsion are visible. The print is hinged at the upper margin edge to a mat.
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