“Shoot First” is a Ralph Gibson gallery from 1999. One of the photo set’s eleven photos is above. Below is an excerpt from Meredith Kovach’s interview with Gibson.
“I use my work to examine the enigmas in my life. And although I never get answers to the questions that I ask, I always get better definitions, more acceptable definitions. And so my photographs represent inquiries, protracted views, examinations of a set of given ideas, whatever might be intriguing me at that point in my life.”
They also talk about the history of the New York photography world, Gibson’s experiences at Max’s Kansas City and what it’s like to see ones’ influence in younger artists.