Déjà-Vu

Softcover | first edition | unpaginated

Published by Lustrum Press, 1973.

Déjà-Vu is Ralph Gibson’s 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 Gibson’s early approach to form and abstraction.

Condition: fair