Paul Graham

About Episode 25

In this episode of PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf, Sasha and photographer-curator, Paul Graham discuss the exhibition, “But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography from the World” which Paul curated for the International Center of Photography. Paul explains why he wanted to create a showcase for the type of lyrical or post- documentary photography that he feels passionately about. They discuss the way the show came together and the 9 artists included.

Paul Graham has played an essential role in dissolving the barriers between the worlds of documentary and fine art photography. Starting in the early 1980s, Graham’s use of color in the role traditionally occupied by black-and-white documentary was a radical challenge to the unwritten rules of engaged photography. Troubled Land (on the Northern Ireland conflict) and Beyond Caring (addressing unemployment in the time of Margaret Thatcher) shifted the debate on how such issues could be visually articulated. With an extraordinarily long and active career of four decades, Graham has published eighteen monographs and three survey books. He moved to New York in 2002, and has worked in the United States since then. Most notably, a shimmer of possibility was published as a set of twelve books and presented as a solo exhibition at MoMA, New York. He is represented by Pace Gallery in the United States, and galleries in London and Berlin.

Artist Links:

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People Mentioned:

Dawoud Bey, Robert Frank, Jeff Wall, Greg Harris, Walker Evans, Judith Joy Ross, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Diane Arbus, Zora J Murff, George Georgiou, Emanuele Brutti, Piergiorgio Casotti, RIchard Choi, Kristine Potter, Gregory Halpern, Mark Steinmetz, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, RaMell Ross, Vanessa Winship, Sarah Meister, Doug DuBois