find release from the savageries of his childhood

The book tells the story of an incompetent British military intelligence agency known as The Department and its multiple botched attempts to verify a Communist defector's story of a Soviet missile buildup in East Germany

joins the queue at an ATM and – of course

printed by the artist himself

and the development towards the “poetic snapshot

The Somnambulist John Cassavetes find release from the savageriesFirst edition of The Somnambulist by Ralph Gibson (1973). Medium format softcover in very good condition. There is general wear to the cover. Some minor toning to the inner pages. otherwise binding is sturdy and pages are clean. Please see photos for reference. About Ralph Gibson builds a coherent corpus of works in which all images have their own visual autonomy and conceives the book as a work of art in its own right.