Déjà-Vu ephemera witness their steppers’ communion

witness their steppers’ communion

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Déjà-Vu ephemera witness their steppers’ communionSoftcover first edition unpaginated Published by Lustrum Press, 1973. Dj Vu is Ralph Gibsons second photobook and the opening title in what became known as the Black Trilogy. The photographs are tightly framed and high contrast, built from fragments of bodies, objects, and interiors. Sequenced with precision, the book leans on repetition and visual rhyme rather than narrative, setting the tone for Gibsons early approach to form and abstraction.