Paul Graham (born 1956) is a British
fine-art and
documentary photographer.[1] He has published three survey monographs, along with 17 other publications.
His work has been exhibited in the Italian Pavilion of the
49th Venice Biennale (2001), Switzerland's national
Fotomuseum Winterthur, and a solo exhibition at New York City's
Museum of Modern Art. He was included in Tate's Cruel and Tender survey exhibition of 20th century photography (2003), and a European mid career survey exhibition at
Museum Folkwang, Essen, which toured to the
Deichtorhallen, Germany, and
Whitechapel Gallery, London. A 2015 survey of his American work, The Whiteness of the Whale, was exhibited at the
High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
Between 1981 and the end of 1982, Graham photographed people and places along the
A1 road in Britain (which mainly parallels the
Great North Road), from the
Bank of England in the
City of London, and travelling north.[2] His portrait of the nation was published in 1983 as A1: The Great North Road.[2]
His book Empty Heaven is devoted to Japan;[3] another, A Shimmer of Possibility, comprises 12 volumes examining everyday life in the USA.[4]
Europe: America. Madrid: La Fábrica, 2011.
ISBN978-8415303343. Said to juxtapose two series, New Europe (1986–1992) and A Shimmer of Possibility (2004–2006). Accompanying an exhibition at the Fundación Botín in 2011/2012 curated by Vicente Todolí.
1981 & 2011. Gothenburg, Sweden:
Hasselblad Foundation; London: Mack, 2012.
ISBN978-1-907946-33-2. Produced in conjunction with his receiving the Hasselblad Award and an exhibition. Edited by Graham in collaboration with Dragana Vujanovic and Louise Wolthers from The Hasselblad Foundation and with a text by
David Campany, "Noticing".[7] Said to unite A1 – The Great North Road (1981) and The Present (2011).
^Bettina Lockemann, Das Fremde sehen: Der europäische Blick auf Japan in der künstlerischen Dokumentarfotografie (Transcript, 2008;
ISBN3-8376-1040-3), p.211 (
here at
Google Books).
Paul Graham (born 1956) is a British
fine-art and
documentary photographer.[1] He has published three survey monographs, along with 17 other publications.
His work has been exhibited in the Italian Pavilion of the
49th Venice Biennale (2001), Switzerland's national
Fotomuseum Winterthur, and a solo exhibition at New York City's
Museum of Modern Art. He was included in Tate's Cruel and Tender survey exhibition of 20th century photography (2003), and a European mid career survey exhibition at
Museum Folkwang, Essen, which toured to the
Deichtorhallen, Germany, and
Whitechapel Gallery, London. A 2015 survey of his American work, The Whiteness of the Whale, was exhibited at the
High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
Between 1981 and the end of 1982, Graham photographed people and places along the
A1 road in Britain (which mainly parallels the
Great North Road), from the
Bank of England in the
City of London, and travelling north.[2] His portrait of the nation was published in 1983 as A1: The Great North Road.[2]
His book Empty Heaven is devoted to Japan;[3] another, A Shimmer of Possibility, comprises 12 volumes examining everyday life in the USA.[4]
Europe: America. Madrid: La Fábrica, 2011.
ISBN978-8415303343. Said to juxtapose two series, New Europe (1986–1992) and A Shimmer of Possibility (2004–2006). Accompanying an exhibition at the Fundación Botín in 2011/2012 curated by Vicente Todolí.
1981 & 2011. Gothenburg, Sweden:
Hasselblad Foundation; London: Mack, 2012.
ISBN978-1-907946-33-2. Produced in conjunction with his receiving the Hasselblad Award and an exhibition. Edited by Graham in collaboration with Dragana Vujanovic and Louise Wolthers from The Hasselblad Foundation and with a text by
David Campany, "Noticing".[7] Said to unite A1 – The Great North Road (1981) and The Present (2011).
^Bettina Lockemann, Das Fremde sehen: Der europäische Blick auf Japan in der künstlerischen Dokumentarfotografie (Transcript, 2008;
ISBN3-8376-1040-3), p.211 (
here at
Google Books).