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Paul Graham
End of an Age
Paul Graham
Paul Graham. End of an Age #01, 1996-1998
In End of an Age Paul Graham captures the threshold that marks the ending of adolescence – the slice of time between youthful indulgence and the emerging awareness of adult responsibilities.
His photographs resonate between these two poles: between full-on consciousness and escape: between staring the world in the eye and shying away; between seeing the world with shocking clarity and the desire to hide oneself from that reality – turn away, get drunk, close your eyes, get stoned. It is a situation that most of us know and remember all too well. It is also the threshold of a profound psychological transformation – a chartless sea in which one might successfully navigate, or get becalmed, or sadly drown.
These portraits, from 1996/97, were all made in the clubs, bars of an unnamed city. They consider this point in one’s life and reflect upon its uncertainty and joys. The photographs alternate between ultra-sharp direct flash images where every detail is minutely recorded and the opposite extreme with loose available-light photographs saturated with color blurred and sometimes mis-focused. Presented in sequence as a single turn, with the images slowly rotating as we pass through the series – a single pirouette – the circle of life right before our eyes.
Selected Works
Paul Graham
End of an Age #01, 1996-1998
3.5 ETH
Paul Graham
End of an Age #04, 1996-1998
3.5 ETH
Paul Graham
End of an Age #09, 1996-1998
3.5 ETH
Paul Graham
End of an Age #02, 1996-1998
4 ETH
Paul Graham
End of an Age #07, 1996-1998
3.5 ETH
Paul Graham
End of an Age #31, 1996-1998
4 ETH
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Artist
Paul Graham
1956 (UK)
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Paul Graham is a British photographer living and working in New York City.
In 1981, Graham completed his first acclaimed work, A1: The Great North Road, a series of color photographs made along A1, Great Britain’s longest numbered road. His use of color film in the early 1980s, at a time when British photography was dominated by traditional black-and-white social documentary, had a revolutionizing effect on the genre. Soon a new school of photography emerged with artists like Martin Parr, Richard Billingham, Simon Norfolk, and Nick Waplington making the switch to color.
In 2011, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired the complete set of prints from The Great North Road, the original set Graham had used to print his first book in 1983. Over the past three decades, Graham has travelled widely, producing twelve distinct bodies of work. He has been the subject of more than eighty solo exhibitions worldwide.
Press + Articles
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Photographing Gen X club culture of the late 90s
I-D Magazine (article)
