Пол Грэм — значительная фигура в современной фотографии, за последние 30 лет своей работы он подверг критике самые разные жанры фотопрактики. Грэм использует и манипулирует классическими жанрами фотографии — портретом, пейзажем, натюрмортом — чтобы отобразить культурную топографию. Его композиции показывают, как социальные отношения и политическая травма вписаны в повседневность. Эта книга объединяет последовательно все серии Грэма — от путешествия по трассе А1 в Британии до интимных исследований Японии.
Пол Грэм — победитель премии в области фотографии Hasselblad Foundation International Award 2012 года, которая почитается в фотосообществе как самая почетная премия за достижения творческой жизни, список ее лауреатов — список великих мастеров фотографии. Работы Грэма выставлялись по всему миру, включая МоМА в Нью-Йорке и Тейт в Лондоне.
The ecstatic face of a disco dancer in Berlin; a rural panorama in Derry, where a country road has been made into a Pollock-like canvas of red, white and blue; an ashtray, framed by a lacy spray of blood in a Barcelona toilet. Paul Graham uses and abuses classic genres of photography - the portrait, the landscape, the still life - to map a cultural topography. His jewel-like colours and unsettling compositions reveal how social relations and political trauma are inscribed in the everyday. This book brings together for the first time all of Graham's successive series, from his journey along the A1 in Britain to intimate studies of Japan. Graham's work has been celebrated in exhibitions around the world, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Tate Britain, London.
Art historian Andrew Wilson has written extensively on contemporary European art and is the author of Gustav Metzger: Damaged Nature, Auto-Destructive Art. He charts the development of Graham's most significant series as defined by the journeys the artist has taken, weaving relations between an emerging aesthetic and the specifics of time and place. In the Interview, Paul Graham speaks with British artist Gillian Wearing, internationally renowned for her photographs and videos that explore the imaginary worlds of ordinary people. Focusing on a triptych from the New Europe series is the celebrated American writer Carol Squiers, Senior Editor at American Photo magazine and editor of The Critical Image: Essays on Contemporary Photography. In juxtaposition with this work, Graham has chosen texts by Japanese authors Kazuo Ishiguro and Haruki Murakami. A series of notes by the artist and an interview with Lewis Baltz provide further insight.
160 pages
24х29 см
