Paul Graham (UK, 1956) belongs to group of photographers born in the 1950’s, who form the last generation to engage with photographic practise before it became part of the contemporary art world. Whilst later image makers would approach the medium as ‘artists using photography’, this grouping - which includes Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Rineke Djikstra, Thomas Struth and Philip-Lorca DiCorcia - committed themselves to the medium at a time when it not an artistic strategy, but an expresssion of a visual consciousness of our world.
Paul Graham's Work
just a few of the images i liked from Paul Graham's body of work.
ABOVE IMAGES TAKEN FROM PAUL GRAHAMS ARCHIVE, BEYOND CARING 1984-85
Graham was among the first photographers to unite contemporary colour practise with the classic genre of 'social documentary'. Photographers such as Martin Parr made the switch to colour soon after, and a new school of British Photography evolved with the subsequent colour work of Richard Billingham, Tom Wood, Paul Seawright, Anna Fox, Simon Norfolk, Nick Waplington.
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