Gibson has maintained a lifelong fascination with books and book-making. Since the appearance in 1970 of "The Somnambulist", his work has been steadily impelled towards the printed page. In 1969 Gibson moved to New York, where he formed Lustrum Press in order to exert control over the reproduction of his work. Lustrum Press also published Larry Clark's "Tulsa" (1971). To date he has produced over 40 monographs, current projects being "State of the Axe" published by Yale University Press in Fall of 2008 and "Nude" by Taschen (2009). His photographs are included in over one hundred and fifty museum collections around the world, and have appeared in hundreds of exhibitions. He has worked exclusively with the Leica for almost 50 years.