PHOTOGRAPHS
24th September 2010 - 9th January 2011
The house of photography shows in the Deichtorhallen in cooperation with the Museum Folkwang, the first retrospective of the British photographer Paul Graham (born 1956). The exhibition presents over 145 images from 11 large, complex work, written in 1981, a representative selection of his work.
Graham is in the tradition of social documentary photography, which in England after the 2nd World War II was marked by Bill Brandt and pursued by photographers such as Chris Killip and John Davis. In dealing with them and with the American photography of the 60s and 70s, Graham developed an innovative, artistic work whose uncompromising gaze on the social reality.
Paul Graham lives in New York. His last series, American Night and A Shimmer of Possibilities have been created in the United States. The confrontation with the American black and white photographer Gary Winogrand, Lee Friedlander and Diane Arbus, who defined their work as individual opinions on social developments, but also with the color photography by Stephen Shore and William Eggleston, whose concerns are focused on everyday situations and objects, Graham has influenced imagery.
to a time when the art of staged photography is increasingly manipulated, or produced in the studio is, or the world is kept at a cool, conceptualized way to distance itself apart from Graham's work as a continuous observation and questioning the reality of life.
Graham's first publication A1 - The Great North Road, appeared in 1981, a documentary that was created along the English north-south trunk road. Graham is already here borrows from traditional genres of photographic practice and realigns them. In the series, Troubled Land, dealing with the situation in Northern Ireland, continue, combined in 1987 landscape photography and war photography. The year before, the colored Reportage Beyond Caring was created to take stock of their employment services and English desolate sadness. In the series American Night (1998-2002) or End of an Age (1996-1998), he pushes the boundaries of what is commonly accepted as a picture or portrait.
The development of his photographic work is closely linked to issues of presentation, which he developed for individual projects from large-sized panel to small-scale sequences.
Paul Graham has a strong tradition of the British, social documentary Photograph taken in his work, in order to enrich and develop diverse. His works enliven the critical photographic discourse and provide the documentary photography with their "statements" in question. The printed image and the book plays a special role. During the early projects were summarized in a classic sequence in panel always the same image size, Graham developed for the recent work very individual book forms the highlight of different formats, materials and book the special sequences of working.
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