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List of photobooks by photographer Graham, Paul
Paul Graham (born 1956) is an English fine-art and documentary photographer. His portraits and street scenes share a common subject matter, but also underly issues such as racial and social inequality, the texture of everyday life, and the nature of sight, perception, and photography itself.
Photo: © self-portrait
Paul Graham (born 1956) is an English fine-art and documentary photographer. His portraits and street scenes share a common subject matter, but also underly issues such as racial and social inequality, the texture of everyday life, and the nature of sight, perception, and photography itself.
Photo: © self-portrait
Exhibited, published and collected worldwide
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.
His fine art photography 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 most recently a solo exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He was one of the 24 photographers included in the Tate Gallery's landmark "Cruel and Tender" survey exhibition of 20th century photography (2003).
Graham has been granted many awards over his carreer among which the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, the Hasselblad Award, a W. Eugene Smith Grant, ... and he won the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards prize for best photographic book of the past 15 years.
Bibliography: Already published photobooks / monographs
2020 A1: The Great North Road, MACK
2019 Mother, MACK
2015 The Whiteness of the Whale, MACK
2014 Does Yellow Run Forever?, MACK
2012 The Present, MACK
Hasselblad Prize 2012, Hasselblad Foundation/MACK
2011 Films, MACK, London, UK
Books on Books #9: Beyond Caring, Errata Editions, New York, USA
Paul Graham, Europe: America, Fundacion Botin, Spain (cat)
2009 Paul Graham, steidlMACK
a shimmer of possibility, single volume, steidlMACK
2007 a shimmer of possibility, twelve volume, steidlMACK
2003 American Night, steidlMACK, Göttingen, Germany.
2000 Paintings, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art Inc, NYC and Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
1998 End of an Age, Scalo
1996 Paul Graham, Contemporary Artists monograph, Phaidon Press
1995 Empty Heaven, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg/Scalo Books, Zurich
1993 New Europe, Fotomuseum Winterthur/Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester
God in Hell, Grey Editions, London (Artists book)
1990 In Umbra Res, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford / Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester
1987 Troubled Land, Grey Editions
1986 Beyond Caring, Grey Editions
1983 A1-The Great North Road, Grey Editions, London
Beyond Caring (*signed / not signed*)
.Signed and non-signed copies IN STOCK. Presentation by MACK: " Originally self-published in 1985, Paul Graham's renowned series Beyond Caring was made in the waiting rooms and corridors of the Social Security and Unemployment offices around the UK, documenting the long waits, queues and poor conditions of an overburdened system, to produce a powerful...
55,00 €In StockPresentation by Mack: " Avec But Still, It Turns, Paul Graham curates a subtle thesis and revitalising manifesto for photography. The dynamic and diverse work gathered here advocates an unashamed, but not uncomplicated, dedication to the brilliant tangle of reality. Without being tempted by the artifice of the studio or the restrictive demands of...
55,00 €Out of stockA1 - The Great North Road (*signed / not...
.Copies of the 2021 reprint (2nd printing) of the 2020 Mack edition of this book. Presentation by Mack: " A1 - The Great North Road was Paul Graham's first book, published in 1983 [self-published via Grey Editions]. Despite the UK having a vibrant photographic scene at the time, there were only handful of monographic books - Chris Killip and Martin Parr...
55,00 €Out of stockPublisher's presentation: "The Whiteness of the Whale brings together Paul Graham’s three bodies of American photographs: American Night, a shimmer of possibility and The Present, made from 1998 to 2011. These 3 remarkable photographic series reflect upon the social fabric of contemporary America, whilst trying to find something closer to the experience...
79,00 €Out of stock.Copy sold.Excerpt from a text by T.J. Proechel for Ahorn Magazine : "Paul Graham’s work can hardly be connected by a single theme. [It] is somewhat elusive, often using the conventions of documentary to explore the hidden reality beyond the visible surface. Throughout his projects he attempts to establish an alternative iconography, to explore what is...
.Copy sold.From the back cover : "Beyond Caring is a searing indictment of the conditions in social security and unemployment benefit offices across Britain. Throughout 1984 and 1985 photographer Paul Graham visited the waiting rooms, corridors and cubicles of the Department of Health and Social Security and the Department of Employment, to document the...
.Sold out.From the publisher : "Street photography is perhaps the defining genre of photographic art. Seminal works by Walker Evans, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand display photography’s astonishing dance with life, and its unique role in forming our perceptions of the modern world. The Present is Paul Graham’s contribution to this...
Paul Graham / Hasselblad Award 2012
From the presentation by MACK : "Paul Graham, winner of the 2012 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, is a vital figure in contemporary photography, working for over thirty years and continually challenging different genres of photographic practice. His work has been widely embraced, with exhibitions at the Tate and the Museum of...
59,00 €In Stock
