Paul Graham (photographer)

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Paul Graham
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Graham in 2006
Born1956 (age 6768)
NationalityBritish
EducationSelf-taught
Known for Fine art photography
Website paulgrahamarchive.com

Paul Graham (born 1956) is a British fine-art and documentary photographer. [1] He has published three survey monographs, along with 26 other dedicated books.

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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.

Graham has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, the Hasselblad Award, the W. Eugene Smith Grant, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and won the inaugural Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards prize for best photographic book of the past 15 years.

Life and career

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]

Publications

Books of work by Graham

Books edited by Graham

Exhibitions

Solo and group exhibitions

Exhibitions curated by Graham

Awards

Collections

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

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