Paul Graham "Photographs 1981 - 2006"

Salon 94 Freemans

poster for Paul Graham "Photographs 1981 - 2006"

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Paul Graham is an artist-photographer who has been very active in revitalizing the central core of photographic practice where the documentary and artistic impulses of the medium coalesce. For the past 25 years his photographs have consistently reflected his signature intertwining of the classic issues of documentary photography with the aesthetic and theoretical concerns of contemporary artistic practice. More than this, his work has maintained the rarest of qualities: an electrifyingly fresh approach to the medium, challenging and renewing itself with every body of photographs.

The exhibition at Salon 94 Freemans will feature a selection of vintage prints from the 1981 to his most recent 2005 American photographs. The earliest work: A1 – The Great North Road is a series of color photographs from 1981-82, depicting life along an old arterial road in England made obsolete by the motorway system. Using many of the tropes of documentary photography yet working in large-format color, Graham created a body of work that dissolved the black and white tradition that had fossilized British photography to that point. Likewise, his Troubled Land photographs from 1984-86 depict landscapes from sectarian torn Northern Ireland, with each image containing small but insistent signs of the disputed territory within them. This startling clash of landscape and conflict photography offered a radical way to reflect on a territory inscribed by the political & social upheaval of a divided society, and has since proven highly influential on much landscape photography.

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from March 12, 2009 to April 18, 2009

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Paul Graham

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