Paul Graham

by Wilson, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780714835501
• ISBN10: 0714835501
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-10
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

Paul Graham's intense colour photographs map a social and cultural landscape.his work brings together portraits, landscapes and interiors from hisritish, European and Japanese series. Graham has exhibited worldwide,ncluding the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Gallery, London.;he book is part of a series of studies of important artists of the late-20thentury. Each title offers a comprehensive survey of the artist's work,roviding analyses and multiple perspectives on contemporary art and itsnspiration.

Author Biography

Andrew Wilson is an art historian, critic and curator living in London. He has been a regular contributor to Art Monthly since 1991 and Deputy Editor since 1997.

Gillian Wearing is an artist living in London. Winner of the 1997 Turner Prize, Wearing is internationally known for her video and photography based work. She is the subject of a monograph in Phaidon's Contemporary Artists series.

Carol Squiers is Curator at the International Center of Photography, New York. Fomerly Senior Editor at  American Photo (1990-2000), Squiers has contributed to numerous publications, including the New York Times, Artforum and Aperture.

Table of Contents

Interview Gillian Wearing in conversation with Paul Graham	6	(30)
Survey Andrew Wilson History and the `Thinking' Photograph	36	(68)
Focus Carol Squiers Writing the Subconscious	104	(14)
Artist's Choice Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World (extract), 1986	118	(12)
Haruki Murakami The Elephant Vanishes (extract), 1993	126	(4)
Artist's Writings Paul Graham Japanese Notebook, 1995	130	(18)
A Conversation with Lewis Baltz, 1995	134	(14)
Chronology	148	(10)
Bibliography	158