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Biography |
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1956 |
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Born in England |
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1985 |
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GLAA Visual Arts Award, London |
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1986 |
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GLC Publications Award, London |
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1986 |
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Arts Council Publications Award |
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1987 |
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Young Photographers Award, ICP, New York |
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1987 |
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Channel 4/Arts Council Video Bursary |
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1987 |
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Hayward Gallery Commission, London |
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1988 |
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Eugene Smith Memorial Fellowship, USA |
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1989 |
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Fellow in Photography, Museum of Photography, Bradford |
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1992 |
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Arts Council Publications Award, London |
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1994 |
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Arts Council Publications Award, London |
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1995 |
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Charles Pratt Memorial Fellowship, USA |
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2009 |
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Awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, London |
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Lives and works in London and New York |
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Exhibitions |
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2011 |
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Paul Graham, Photographs 1981-2006, Whitechapel Gallery, London (solo) |
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2011 |
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Whitechapel Gallery, London, Great Britain (solo) |
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2010 |
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Paul Graham, Photographs 1981-2006, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg(solo) |
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2010 |
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Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (solo) |
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2009 |
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MoMA, New York, USA (solo) |
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2009 |
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Gemeente museum, Den Haag, Netherlands (solo) |
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2009 |
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Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (solo) |
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2009 |
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The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, The Photographers’ Gallery, London touring to C/O, Berlin and Neue Börse, Frankfurt |
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2009 |
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Paul Graham, An Anthology, Anthony Reynolds Gallery (solo) |
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2009 |
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Paul Graham, Photographs 1981-2006, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (solo) |
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2009 |
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Paul Graham, Photographs 1981-2006, Salon 94 Freemans, New York (solo) |
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2009 |
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Paul Graham, Photographs 1981-2006, Folkwang Museum, Essen |
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2009 |
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a shimmer of possibility, Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo) |
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2009 |
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Paul Graham, a shimmer of possibility, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (solo) |
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2008 |
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Paul Graham, a shimmer of possibility, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin (solo) |
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2008 |
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Paul Graham, a shimmer of possibility, Les Filles du Calvaires, Paris (solo) |
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2008 |
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Paul Graham, a shimmer of possibility, Crown Gallery, Brussels (solo) |
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2008 |
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Paul Graham, a shimmer of possibility, La Fabrica, Madrid (solo) |
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2008 |
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No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1967-1987; From the British Council and the Arts |
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2008 |
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Council Collection, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, touring to UK venues and The Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw |
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2008 |
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Ideal Youth, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, curated by Russell Ferguson |
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2008 |
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Street & Studio, Tate Modern, touring to Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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2008 |
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Folkwang Museum, Essen (solo) |
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2007 |
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Paul Graham, A Shimmer of Possibility, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (solo) |
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2007 |
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How We Are: Photographing Britain, Tate Britain, London |
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2007 |
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Photo-London, London |
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2007 |
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Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London |
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2006 |
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Paul Graham, American Night, La Fabrica, Madrid (solo) |
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2006 |
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Paul Graham, American Night, Les Filles du Calvaires, Paris (solo) |
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2006 |
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Paul Graham, American Night, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (solo) |
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2006 |
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Work, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland |
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2006 |
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The Northern Ireland Collection, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton |
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2006 |
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Click Doubleclick, Bozar Center for Fine Arts, Brussels |
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2006 |
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Different Realities?, Crown Gallery, Brussels |
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2006 |
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Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now, Tatel Liverpool (cat.) |
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2005 |
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Appearance, Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds (cat.) |
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2005 |
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Bidibibodibiboo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino |
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2005 |
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Arbeit – Work, Labour, Galerie im Taxipalais, Innsbruck (cat.) |
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2005 |
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Miradas y Conceptos, MEIAC, Badajoz |
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2005 |
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Emergencias, MUSAC, León |
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2004 |
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Paul Graham, American Night, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis (solo) |
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2004 |
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Paul Graham, Fundación Telefonica, PHotoEspaña, Madrid (cat.) (solo) |
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2004 |
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American Night, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin (solo) |
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2004 |
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American Pictures, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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2004 |
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Extra City, Centre for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium |
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2004 |
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Painting, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
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2004 |
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About Face – Photography and the death of the portrait, Hayward Gallery, London |
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2004 |
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L’Eblouissement, Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, Paris (cat.) |
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2004 |
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Je t’envisage, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne |
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2004 |
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American Night, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles |
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2004 |
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American Night, Crown Gallery, Brussels |
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2003 |
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American Night, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
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2003 |
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American Night, PS1 MOMA, New York |
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2003 |
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American Night, Power House, Memphis |
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2002 |
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Paintings, Crown Gallery, Brussels |
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2001 |
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End of an Age, Galleria Marabini, Bologna |
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2001 |
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Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles |
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2000 |
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Paintings, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (cat., ill.) |
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2000 |
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Galerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zurich |
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2000 |
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Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York |
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2000 |
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End of an Age, Scalo, New York |
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1998 |
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Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki |
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1998 |
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Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh |
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1998 |
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Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich |
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1997 |
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Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
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1996 |
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Empty Heaven, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense |
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1996 |
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Hypermetropia, Tate Gallery, London |
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1995 |
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Empty Heaven, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg |
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1995 |
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Le Case d’Arte, Milan (cat., ill.) |
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1995 |
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Galleria Casa d’Arte, Milano |
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1993 |
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New Europe, Fotomuseum Winterthur |
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1993 |
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Television Portraits, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
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1992 |
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Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris |
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1991 |
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Aschenbach, Amsterdam |
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1990 |
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Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
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1990 |
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National Museum of Film and Photography, Bradford |
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1990 |
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Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne |
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1989 |
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Galerie Claire Burus, Paris |
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1989 |
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Centre Regional de la Photographie, Douchy |
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1988 |
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PPOW Gallery, New York |
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1988 |
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Museum Het Princessehof, Leeuwarden |
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1987 |
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Jones Troyer Gallery, Washington DC |
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1987 |
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Kodak Gallery, Tokyo |
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1987 |
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Arles Rencontres, Arles, France |
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1987 |
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Stills Gallery, Edinburgh |
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1987 |
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FNAC, Les Halles, Paris |
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1987 |
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Cornerhouse Arts Centre, Manchester |
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1986 |
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National Museum of Photography, Bradford |
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1986 |
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travelling exhibition to Birmingham, Kendal, Cheltenham, Cardiff |
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1986 |
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Photographers’ Gallery, London |
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1986 |
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Watershed Gallery, Bristol |
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Literature |
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2009 |
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Paul Graham, steidlMack, London |
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2009 |
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David Deitcher, ‘Paul Graham, Museum of Modern Art New York’, Artforum, May ‘Prizes’, Art Monthly, May |
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2009 |
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Paul Graham Wins Deutsche Boerse Photography Prize’, www.artforum.com, 26 March |
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2009 |
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Nina Caplan, ‘Snap decisions’, Time Out, 5 March |
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2009 |
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Leo Benedictus, ‘Paul Graham’s Best Shot’, The Guardian, 5 March |
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2009 |
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Claire Holland, ‘Visions Personal and Political’, Financial Times, 2 March |
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2009 |
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Liz Jobey, ‘Photographer Paul Graham: fragments of life’, The Guardian, 2 March |
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2009 |
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Sue Steward, ‘Small lives and large secrets’, Evening Standard, 20 February |
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2009 |
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Karen Rosenberg, ‘Roadside Refections on Your Land, My Land’, The New York Times, 6 February |
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2009 |
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Drusilla Beufus, ‘A Cut Above’, Telegraph Magazine, 24 January |
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2009 |
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‘Paul Graham at Folkwang Museum, Essen’, www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/2009 |
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2009 |
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Liz Jobey, ‘Snappy new year: photography books for 2009’, The Guardian, 2 January |
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2008 |
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Street and Studio, Tate Publishing |
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2008 |
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Oliver Laurent, ‘Paul Graham’s second crack at Deutsch Borse’, British Journal of Photography, 29 October |
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2008 |
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Matthew Higgs, Frieze, issue 112, January-February |
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2007 - 2008 |
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Martin Herbert, ‘A Shimmer of Possibility’, Photoworks, Autumn/Winter, November/April |
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2007 |
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A Shimmer of Possibility, steidl MACK, London http://5b4.blogspot.com, November 5th |
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2007 |
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David Campany, ‘Life is just so astonishing…’, Art World, issue 1, Oct/Nov |
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2007 |
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Pluk, Autumn, Issue #34 |
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2007 |
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Helen Sumpter, ‘Paul Graham’, Time Out, 26 September – 2 October |
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2007 |
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‘Britain Through The Lens”, Royal Photographic Journal, June 2007 |
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2007 |
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Haworth-Booth and Charlotte Cotton, ‘Photo-London 2007’, Kultureflash.net, issue 206, 31st May |
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2007 |
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Richard Dorment, ‘Great Britain: this is your life’, The Daily Telegraph, 22 May |
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2006 |
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Andrew Hunt, 'Work', Frieze, September (ill.) |
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2005 |
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Sarah James, 'The Truth about Photography', Art Monthly, Dec- Jan (ill.) |
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2005 |
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Jeffrey Hughes, ‘Paul Graham, American Night’, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 70 |
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2004 |
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Michel Guerrin, ‘Les paysages peoples d’indices politique de Paul Graham’, Le Monde, 10 July |
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2004 |
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Val Williams, ‘Paul Graham – American Night’, Portfolio, #38 (ill.) |
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2004 |
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Martin Seidel, ‘Cruel and Tender’, Kunstforum International, Bd. 169, Marz-April (ill.) |
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2004 |
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‘Enveloped by the landscape of the living’, Los Angeles Times |
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2003 |
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Vince Aletti, ‘Stalking the invisible man in the American Landscape’, The Village Voice, |
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2003 |
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Steve Dollar, ‘Glaring Examples of America’, City Arts, 23 November (ill.) |
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2003 |
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Martin Coomer, ‘Paul Graham’, Time Out, 5-12 November (ill.) |
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2003 |
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Cory Dugan, ‘Through a veil of white, Graham exposes social divide’, GoMemphis: The Arts, 19 October |
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2003 |
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Jessica Lack, ‘Paul Graham’, The Guardian Guide, 18 October (ill.) |
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2003 |
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New York Times Magazine, 12 October (cover) |
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2003 |
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Pablo Lafuente, ‘Illuminations’, ArtReview, October (ill.) |
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2003 |
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‘Paul Graham – American Night’, pluk, Sept/Oct, Issue 14 (ill.) |
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2003 |
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Paul Bonaventura, ‘Paul Graham: The Troubles’, Circa Art Magazine, online feature article (ill.) |
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2003 |
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Eliza Williams, ‘Thatcher’, Contemporary, Issue 53 (ill.) |
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2003 |
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Rachel Campbell Johnston, Play – The Times, 7-13 June (ill.) |
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2003 |
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Matthew Parris, ‘If I had £10,000, I would buy this picture of Margaret Thatcher’, The Spectator, 17 May |
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2003 |
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Michael Binyon, ‘Deface of the Nation’, The Times, 18 April |
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2003 |
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American Night, steidl MACK, London |
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2001 |
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Kunstforum International, August – October (ill.) |
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2001 |
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Richard Cork, 'Too many tours spoil the broth', The Times, 13 June |
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2000 |
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Adrian Searle, 'Closely observed lavatories', The Guardian, 18 October |
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2000 |
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Izi Glover, ‘Paul Graham’, Time Out, 18-25 October (ill.) |
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2000 |
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Jessica Lack, The Guardian Guide, 7-13 October (ill.) |
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2000 |
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Helen Sumpter, ‘Paul Graham: Paintings’, Hot Tickets: Evening Standard, 6-12 October |
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2000 |
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‘Something to Declare?’, The Independent on Sunday, 24 September |
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2000 |
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Helen Sumpter, ‘Art Attacks’, The Big Issue, 11-17 September (ill.) |
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2000 |
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Paintings, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London; Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich; and Lawrence Rubin • Greenberg Van Doren • Fine Art, New York |
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1999 |
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End of an Age, Scalo Books, Zurich |
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1996 |
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Paul Graham, Phaidon Press, London |
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1995 |
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Empty Heaven, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg / Scalo Books, Zurich |
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1993 |
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God in Hell, Grey Editions, London (Artists books) |
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1993 |
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New Europe, Fotomuseum Winterthur / Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester |
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1990 |
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Bradford / Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester |
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1990 |
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In Umbra Res, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, |
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1987 |
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Troubled Land, Grey Editions, London |
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1986 |
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Beyond Caring, Grey Editions, London |
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1983 |
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A1-The Great North Road, Grey Editions, London |
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