Paul Graham, artist and art
Born 1956, Birth Stafford, UK.
The artist lives and works in London and New York.
Style and technique, exhibitions: Photography, Photography - Documentary, Deutsche Borse Prize,Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
…Graham’s work often attracts vociferous opinion and there is little doubt that American Night will generate a comparable outcry as the photographer, a perennial outsider, draws attention to a society outwardly insensible to the consequences of systemic racial inequity.
Biography and works
Hypermetropia
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Documenting people’s everyday lives, Graham approaches social realities with brutal honesty. His works are resolutely contemporary and can be read both artistically and politically, qualities obvious in earlier works like Troubled Land (1987), his photographs from Northern Ireland, or New Europe (1993), a series of images reflecting on history and memory across Western Europe.
Paul Graham (UK, 1956) is part of that generation of photographers born in the 1950’s that have come to prominence in art photography today, whose creatively formative years coincided with the rich flowering of postwar American photography. Whilst later image makers would approach the medium as ‘artists using photography’, this generation, which includes such notables as Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Rineke Djikstra, Thomas Struth and Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, committed themselves to photography at a time when it was not part of the art world…
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“I’m sometimes called a ‘documentary photographer’ but… a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I’m doing one thing when I’m thought to be doing another.”
Walker Evans