Introduction to Political Theory

Paul Graham

JOHN HOFFMAN

Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group

Hackers and Painters Big Ideas from the Computer Age

O'Reilly Media, Inc.

The A1 was the first major road to run the entire length of England. In the late 1950s, with the completion of the faster and more efficient motorway system, the A1 began to atrophy and decay. Graham spent two years completing this documentary on the life and landscape of what had been known as the "Great North Road." These photographs build not only into a significant documentary of the A1, but also weave a picture of England in the 1980s. This is the first of the three very influential books of Graham's work that redefined the European approach to documentary photography. Paperback. Unpaginated (96 pages); 41 full-page color photographic plates; 11 x 8.5 inches. From an edition limited to 2500 copies.

A1: The Great North Road

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Grey Editions

Troubled Land deals with the small but insistent signs of deep political division within the landscape of Northern Ireland at the time of the "troubles." Avoiding both cliches of sensationalist urban mayhem, or escapist rural idyll, the images flow from inner city through the fringe towns and villages, and out to the countryside, concentrating in each case upon the visual footnotes of the conflict. One of the three books of Graham's work that redefined the European approach to documentary photography.  Oversized trade paperback. Photographs by Paul Graham; Essays by Declan McGonagle and Gerry Badger. 80 pages; 33 full-page color photographic plates; 12 x 9 inches.

Troubled Land: The Social Landscape of Northern Ireland

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Crazy Season

Kitsune Books

"Films is Paul Graham's eulogy to the physical material of photography: Film. The 20th century's greatest medium has undergone a catastrophic decline over the past decade as digital cameras have swept aside the traditional process of taking photographs. Film has died: Kodacolor, Fujicolor, Tri-X, Kodachrome, Ektacolor -- all evocative names for any photographer -- are now gone or fading fast. Yet this magical material is a true product of both science: silver salts suspended in gelatin emulsion on celluloid base, and magical alchemy: it could capture light. Film became the defining material of 20th century creativity, and is ubiquitous to every great artist of photography and film making. While examining his past 30 years of work for the 2009 survey exhibition and book, Graham became enamoured with the material of his craft, and began to reflect upon the physical substance by which he, and all photographers, made their images. Besides scanning his images for the survey, he also scanned the blank film ends and unexposed frames from each body of work to gather an alternative survey, a 'negative retrospective' of his practice. What first appears to be abstract dots, blobs or colour forms, are in fact just greatly magnified images of the raw film emulsion -- the color dye clouds formed in the exposure and development of film. These images are not abstract at all, but extreme close-ups of the film's structure -- the red, green and blue dyes that form film emulsion, which comprise each and every celluloid image in existence. Their beauteous complication, the wonder of their granular form, irrespective of what they describe, is given here for us to enjoy. Graham presents us a timely tribute to the passing of film. The grains, color dyes and black and white crystals, make images of beauty, simplicity and scientific record. Part wistful homage, part farewell, part visual wonder, Films is a book for anyone who engaged with photographic material in the 20th century."

Films

Mack

Paul Graham The Present Street photography is perhaps the defining genre of photographic art. Seminal works by Walker Evans, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand display photography's astonishing dance with life, and its unique role in forming our perceptions of the modern world.The Present is Paul Graham's contribution to this legacy. The images in this book come unbidden from the streets of New York, but are not quite what we might expect, for each moment is brought to us with its double - two images taken from the same location, separated only by the briefest fraction of time. We find ourselves in sibling worlds, where a businessman with an eye patch becomes, an instant later, a man with an exaggerated wink; a woman eating a banana walks towards us, and a small focus shift reveals the blind man right behind her.Although there are flashes of surprise - a woman walks confidently down the street one moment, only to tumble to the ground a second later - for the most part there is little of the drama street photography is addicted to. People arrive and depart this quiet stage, with the smallest shift of time and attention revealing the thread between them. A suited young businessman crosses the road, only to be replaced by his homeless alternate; a woman in a pink t-shirt is engulfed with tears, but seconds later there is a content shopper in her place.The Present gives us an impression quite different to most street photography where life is frozen rigid. Here we glimpse the continuum: before/after, coming/going, either/or. A 'present' that is a fleeting and provisional alignment, with no singularity or definitiveness; a world of shifting awareness and alternate realities, where life twists and spirals in a fraction of a second to another moment, another world, another consciousness.

The Present

a shimmer of possibility

The Whiteness of the Whale brings together Paul Graham's three bodies of American photographs: American Night, a shimmer of possibility and The Present, made from 1998 to 2011. These 3 remarkable photographic series reflect upon the social fabric of contemporary America, whilst trying to find something closer to the experience of being and seeing in the world today. American Night (2003) examines the social fracture of America - the great divide between have and have-not rendered through the dichotomy of light and darkness, presence and absence. The images oscillate between high-key near invisible photographs in bright light, and the antithesis - deeply saturated colour images of freshly minted homes glowing under California's blue skies. a shimmer of possibility (2007), is an American epic of the small and incidental. Originally published as twelve photographic visions of everyday life, the stuttering sequences form a kind of 'filmic haiku', revealing the flow of life found in quotidian America, where we share moments with people waiting for a bus, cutting the grass, or smoking a cigarette. a shimmer of possibility was winner of the 2011 Paris Photo Book Prize for the most significant Photobook of the past 15 years. The Present (2011) taken in the streets of New York, and unfolds two images of the same scene separated only by the briefest fraction of time. Here the present is revealed to be a fleeting and provisional alignment, glimpsed as part of an ever flowing continuum of life: before/after, coming/going, either/or. The luxurious catalogue is printed in wide gamut inks on natural white paper, and coincides with the first solo exhibition at Pier 24, San Francisco. It includes newly commissioned texts by David Chandler and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa.

The Whiteness of the Whale

A1 - The Great North Road a été le premier livre de Paul Graham, publié en 1983. Bien que le Royaume-Uni ait une scène photographique dynamique à l'époque, il n'y avait qu'une poignée de livres monographiques - Chris Killip et Martin Parr en avaient un chacun - et aucun éditeur dédié ou distributeurs. Graham a dû auto- publier A1, mais en tant que premier livre couleur, il a eu un impact surprenant sur la photographie britannique. Alliant la tradition du documentaire social à la nouvelle approche de la nouvelle couleur, A1 - The Great North Road a transformé la photographie au Royaume-Uni et a ouvert la voie à l'émergence d'une nouvelle génération de photographes couleur britanniques, de Nick Waplington à Anna Fox, Richard Billingham à Tom Wood. S'étendant sur toute la longueur de la Grande-Bretagne et à Édimbourg, Graham a voyagé à plusieurs reprises le long de la «Great North Road» avec une caméra grand format, pour enregistrer les personnes, les bâtiments et le paysage de la Grande-Bretagne du début des années 1980. Aujourd'hui vieux de 40 ans, ce livre est autant un art qu’un document historique des années du gouvernement de Margaret Thatcher et de la base industrielle en déclin du Royaume-Uni. Graham a ensuite réalisé Beyond Caring (1985) et Troubled Land (1986), qui sont tous deux devenus des œuvres emblématiques. À l'origine auto-édité et maintenant rare, la trilogie de livres des années 80 de Graham sera rééditée au cours des prochaines années par MACK, se terminant par un coffret en édition limitée des 3 volumes.

A1 THE GREAT NORTH ROAD

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