Photographer David Graham is often “tirelessly traveling the United States, [to capture] the colorful, sometimes surreal, and often bizarre, in the thoroughly American landscape,” as he states on his website. His current exhibition, “Thirty-Five / 35 Pictures,” at the 339 Gallery in Philadelphia features one photograph from each year for the past 35 years.
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Chronicling America in 35 Pictures
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New York: Where We Live by David Graham at Laurence Miller Gallery – The Eye of Photography
It is time to take greater note of David Graham’s 30 year career as a photographer with his well considered, often wry reports from “on the road” in the U.S. and his classic books: “American Beauty”, “Only in America: Some Unexpected Scenery”, ”Land of the Free: What Makes Americans Different”, “Taking Liberties” and “Declaring Independence”. This exhibition prominently features almost a dozen images from “Alone Together: Life on an Island in Maine”, his very moving, Chekovian portrait of an aging couple, the Kellams, told only with their surroundings: their cottage, the woods, their hand written notes to each other.
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A 30-Year American Road Trip – NYTimes.com
A 30-Year American Road Trip
David Graham has made his life work taking witty, empathetic images of America that are layered with meaning.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/22/a-thirty-year-american-road-trip/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog
It’s summertime, so millions of Americans are gassing up the car, loading up the kids and hitting the highway for that most American of rituals: the road trip. Big skies, roadside attractions and unending byways feature deeply in the national mythology, and in the history of photography, too. For David Graham, exploring the nooks and crannies of this large country has been his life’s work.
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David Graham: Looking back at 35 years of photographing the unusual side of American life
35 Years of Capturing America’s Disappearing Quirk
In 1979, photographer David Graham began using an 8-by-10-view camera. Although that isn’t necessarily remarkable, the record of America Graham…
via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/02/14/david_graham_looking_back_at_35_years_of_photographing_the_unusual_side.html
In 1979, photographer David Graham began using an 8-by-10-view camera. Although that isn’t necessarily remarkable, the record of America Graham produced during the past 35 years is exceptional for the scope of the work and that it was produced with such a cumbersome piece of equipment. A tightly edited collection of the work that includes only one image from each of the 35 years is currently on view at Gallery 339 in Philadelphia.