Crusade in EuropeLimited to 1,000 copies, each numbered and signed by the photographer. A decade after his first TASCHEN book, Deux ex Machina, Ralph Gibson is back, with an extensive collection of nudes, including his best recent work as well as an interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly contrasted and meticulously composed, Gibsons photographs pay tribute to some of the mediums greatest practitioners, such as Man Ray and Edward Weston, while venturing into uncharted waters. Says Gibson: A photographer once said that beauty in women is endless. Perhaps it was I who said it. In fact, I remember distinctly having done soand the thought persists to this day. We stare in the psychological mirror of the human body with a fascination that endures indefinitely. At least art history indicated this to be so. The Willendorf Venus is said to date from 25,000 BCthat is a old enough for me to believe in the subject. I love photographing women and could say that the form of the female body is absolute and perfect. |
Contents
PRELUDE TO WAR | 1 |
GLOBAL WAR | 16 |
LIFE LINE TO AUSTRALIA | 20 |
COMMAND POST FOR MARSHALL | 31 |
TRANSATLANTIC SHIPPING ROUTES | 44 |
PLATFORM FOR INVASION | 49 |
BOMBERS OVER AXIS INDUSTRY | 64 |
PLANNING TORCH | 74 |
DDAY ASSAULT | 255 |
BREAKOUT | 266 |
THE BREAKOUT AND EXPLOITATION | 273 |
PURSUIT AND THE BATTLE OF SUPPLY | 288 |
ANVILDRAGOON | 295 |
PLAN AND PERFORMANCE | 309 |
AUTUMN FIGHTING ON GERMANYS FRONTIER | 321 |
THE SCHELDT ESTUARY | 326 |
INVASION OF AFRICA | 95 |
LANDINGS IN NORTH AFRICA | 102 |
WINTER IN ALGIERS | 115 |
NOVEMBER RACE FOR TUNIS | 117 |
TUNISIAN CAMPAIGN | 135 |
THE KASSERINE COUNTERATTACK | 144 |
SPRING OFFENSIVE IN TUNISIA | 153 |
HUSKY | 159 |
SICILY AND SALERNO | 173 |
THE INVASION OF SICILY | 175 |
THE INVASION OF ITALY | 185 |
CAIRO CONFERENCE | 193 |
ITALY | 201 |
ITALIAN CAMPAIGN | 205 |
PLANNING OVERLORD | 220 |
GENERAL STRATEGY OF OVERLORD | 227 |
DDAY AND LODGMENT | 253 |
THE ARDENNES RISK | 339 |
HITLERS LAST BID | 342 |
THE ARDENNESMAXIMUM GERMAN PENETRATION | 354 |
CROSSING THE RHINE | 366 |
TO DESTROY THE GERMANS WEST OF THE RHINE | 373 |
ASSAULT AND ENCIRCLEMENT | 387 |
THE RHINE BARRIER BREACHED | 393 |
OVERRUNNING GERMANY | 404 |
MILITARY SITUATION AT GERMAN SURRENDER | 419 |
VICTORYS AFTERMATH | 427 |
OPERATION STUDY | 448 |
RUSSIA | 457 |
A Allied Order of Battle for Final Offensive | 510 |
The German Ground Forces | 516 |
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