Paul Graham (photographer)

Paul Graham (born 1956) is an English fine-art and documentary photographer.[1] His work has been exhibited, published and collected internationally.

Paul Graham
Born1956
NationalityBritish
EducationSelf-taught
Known forFine art photography
Websitepaulgrahamarchive.com

Graham has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize,[2] the Hasselblad Award,[3] the W. Eugene Smith Grant,[4] fellowships from Winston Churchill Memorial Trusts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,[5] and won the inaugural Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards prize for best photographic book of the past 15 years.[6]

Life and career

Graham has been a prolific and well published artist, including three survey monographs, by Mack (2015), SteidlMack (2009) and Phaidon (1996), along with 17 other publications. One book, Empty Heaven, is devoted to Japan;[7] another, A Shimmer of Possibility, comprises 12 volumes examining the nominal life in the USA.[8]

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.[9] His portrait of the nation was published in 1983 as A1: The Great North Road.[9]

His work has been exhibited extensively—notably participating in the Italian Pavilion of the 49th Venice Biennale (2001), the inaugural exhibition at Switzerland's national Fotomuseum Winterthur, and a solo exhibition at New York City's Museum of Modern Art.[8] He was one of the 24 photographers included in Tate Gallery's Cruel and Tender survey exhibition of 20th century photography (2003),[10] and a European mid career survey exhibition at Museum Folkwang, Essen, and touring from 2009 to 2011 to the Deichtorhallen, Germany, and Whitechapel Gallery,[9] London. A 2015 survey of his American work, The Whiteness of the Whale was the first solo exhibition at Pier 24 in San Francisco,[11] and toured to the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Bombas Gens in Valencia; and Rencontres d'Arles,[12] France.

Publications
  • A1—The Great North Road. Bristol: Grey, 1983. ISBN 978-0950870304
  • Beyond Caring. Bristol: Grey, 1985. ISBN 978-0950870311
  • Troubled Land. Bristol: Grey, 1987. ISBN 978-0950870328
  • In Umbra Res. Bradford: National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television, 1991.
  • New Europe. Fotomuseum Winterthur, 1992.
  • Empty Heaven. Zurich: Scalo, 1995. ISBN 978-1881616535
  • Paul Graham. Phaidon Press, London, 1996.
  • End of an Age. Zurich: Scalo, 1999. ISBN 978-3908247173
  • Paintings. New York, NY: Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, 2000. ISBN 978-0967757339
  • American Night. Göttingen: SteidlMack, 2003. ISBN 978-3882439199
  • A Shimmer of Possibility. Göttingen: SteidlMack, 2007. ISBN 978-3865214836. 12 volume hardback.
  • Paul Graham. Göttingen: SteidlMack, 2009. ISBN 978-3865218582
  • A Shimmer of Possibility. Göttingen: SteidlMack, 2009. Single volume softback.
  • Europe: America. Madrid: La Fábrica, 2011. ISBN 978-8415303343. 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.
  • Films. London: Mack, 2011. ISBN 978-1907946028
  • The Present. London: Mack, 2012. ISBN 978-1907946189
  • 1981 & 2011. Gothenburg, Sweden: Hasselblad Foundation; London: Mack, 2012. ISBN 978-1-907946-33-2. 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".[13] Said to unite A1 – The Great North Road (1981) and The Present (2011).
  • Does Yellow Run Forever?. London: Mack, 2014. ISBN 978-1910164068
  • The Whitness of the Whale. London: Mack; San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, 2015. ISBN 978-1-91016-432-7. American Night, A Shimmer of Possibility and The Present. With texts by David Chandler and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa.
  • Paris 11~15th November 2015. London: Mack, 2016. ISBN 978-1-910164-64-8.
  • Mother. London: Mack, 2019. ISBN 978-1-912339-45-7.[14]

Solo and group exhibitions

Awards

Collections

Graham's work is held in the following public collections:

References
  1. O'Hagan, Sean (8 March 2012). "Photographer Paul Graham wins 2012 Hasselblad award". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  2. "Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008". www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org.
  3. "Paul Graham: 2012 Hasselblad Award Winner 2012". Hasselblad Foundation. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  4. "1988: Recipients: Paul Graham". W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
  5. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Paul Graham".
  6. "Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards – PhotographyBLOG".
  7. Bettina Lockemann, Das Fremde sehen: Der europäische Blick auf Japan in der künstlerischen Dokumentarfotografie (Transcript, 2008; ISBN 3-8376-1040-3), p.211 (here at Google Books).
  8. "a shimmer of possibility". Art.Base.
  9. Sooke, Alastair (26 April 2011). "Paul Graham retrospective, Whitechapel Gallery, review". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  10. "Paul Graham British, born 1956". Tate Modern. Accessed 2 March 2018.
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  13. "MACK – Paul Graham – 1981 & 2011". MACK.
  14. O’Hagan, Sean (23 October 2019). "Paul Graham on Mother: 'I wanted to look clearly at her last years on Earth'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 3 May 2020 – via www.theguardian.com.
  15. Leaflet accompanying the exhibition, MoCP. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
  16. Abigail Foerstner, "Man's limestone building blocks: Landscape for the lens", Chicago Tribune, 16 May 1986. Retrieved 16 February 2019.
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  20. "MoMA PS1 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  21. "GRAHAM, Paul". Médiathèque des Rencontres d'Arles. 10 April 2014.
  22. "Haus der Kunst - Detail". 23 November 2011.
  23. Fábrica, La (12 September 2016). "Paul Graham".
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  31. Haeusslein, Allie (28 October 2015). "Paul Graham on The Whiteness of the Whale at Pier 24 Photography". Aperture Foundation. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  32. Johnston, Chris (25 November 2016). "Deutsche Börse's Photography Foundation 2017 prize shortlist announced" – via www.theguardian.com.
  33. "Honorary Fellowships (HonFRPS)". Royal Photographic Society. Archived from the original on 27 January 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  34. "Graham, Paul | Arts Council Collection". www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk.
  35. "Paul Graham | Artists | Collection | British Council − Visual Arts". visualarts.britishcouncil.org.
  36. "Den Nationale Fotosamling - Det Kongelige Bibliotek". www5.kb.dk.
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  38. "Paul Graham - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg". www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de.
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