Paul Graham
Paul Graham was among the first photographic artists to unite contemporary color practice with the "documentary" genre at the beginning of the 1980s. Innovative and influential over the course of four decades, Graham’s photographs have garnered recognition for their development of fresh ways of visualising the world, yet always retaining a deep commitment to working directly with life.
Paul Graham (b. 1956, England) lives and works in New York. In 2012, he was awarded the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, the most prestigious international award for photography. Graham’s work has been the subject of more than eighty solo exhibitions in internationally renowned institutions including the Whitechapel Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Tate Gallery, London.
Exhibitions at carlier | gebauer
- 03/21 Tracey Emin / Nan Goldin / Paul Graham / Swetlana Heger / Gregor Hildebrandt / Maximilian Kirmse / Stephanie Kloss / Lindsay Lawson / Antje Majewski / Isa Melsheimer / Simon Mullan / Piotr Nathan / Magnus Plessen / Richard Prince / Laure Prouvost / Erik Schmidt / Katharina Sieverding / Dirk Skreber / Heidi Specker / Nasan Tur / Erik van Lieshout / Davide Zucco, ongoing schmidt pick
- 11/20 Paul Graham, Mother/Sightless
- 02/20 Sebastián Díaz Morales / Hélène Delprat / Michel François / Cecilia Edefalk / Vincent Gicquel / Paul Graham / Dor Guez / Kyungah Ham / Tarik Kiswanson / Julie Mehretu / Caroline Mesquita / Richard Mosse / Oscar Muñoz / Paul Pfeiffer / Laure Prouvost / Edi Rama / Erik Schmidt / Nida Sinnokrot / Thomas Schütte / Mark Wallinger, So what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?
- 01/17 Sebastián Díaz Morales / Michel François / Paul Graham / Santu Mofokeng / Andreas Mühe / Paul Pfeiffer / Michael Wesely, The Extended Moment
- 11/14 Paul Graham, Does Yellow Run Forever?
- 04/12 Paul Graham, The Present
- 10/10 Paul Graham, Beyond Caring
- 06/08 Paul Graham, A shimmer of possibility
- 03/04 Paul Graham, American Night
Biography
Texts
- Sean O'Hagan, Paul Graham on Mother: 'I wanted to look clearly at her last years on Earth', in: The Guardian, 23 October, 2019
- Karen Rosenberg, Paul Graham: ‘Does Yellow Run Forever?’, in: The New York Times, 25 September, 2014
- Sean O'Hagen,"Paul Graham: 'The photography I most respect pulls something out of the ether'", The Observer, April 2011
- Excerpt from 'A Thing There Was That Mattered', from the book 'Paul Graham' published by steidl MACK, 2009