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Paul Graham

born 1956

Untitled #38, Woman on Sidewalk, New York, 2002 2002
© Paul Graham; courtesy Pace and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
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Biography

Paul Graham (born 1956) is a British fine-art and documentary photographer. He has published three survey monographs, along with 26 other dedicated books.

His work has been exhibited in the Italian Pavilion of the 49th Venice Biennale (2001), Switzerland's national Fotomuseum Winterthur, and a solo exhibition at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. He was included in Tate's Cruel and Tender survey exhibition of 20th century photography (2003), and a European mid career survey exhibition at Museum Folkwang, Essen, which toured to the Deichtorhallen, Germany, and Whitechapel Gallery, London. A 2015 survey of his American work, The Whiteness of the Whale, was exhibited at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

Graham has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, the Hasselblad Award, the W. Eugene Smith Grant, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and won the inaugural Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards prize for best photographic book of the past 15 years.

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Artworks

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  • Untitled #46, Man in Wheelchair, Detroit, 2001

    Paul Graham
    2001
  • Candy Wrapper, Tokyo/Kimono Pattern Flash Burn Photograph, Hiroshima

    Paul Graham
    1990
  • Television Portrait (Cathy, London)

    Paul Graham
    1989
  • Television Portrait (Danny, Bristol)

    Paul Graham
    1991
  • Television Portrait (Jack, Bradford)

    Paul Graham
    1989
  • Television Portrait (Yuko, Kyoto)

    Paul Graham
    1992
  • Paint on Road, Gobnascale Estate, Derry

    Paul Graham
    1985, printed 1993–4
    On display at Tate Britain part of The 80s
  • Graffiti on Motorway Sign, Belfast

    Paul Graham
    1985, printed 1993–4
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