Lecture 3 - Paul Graham
In association with Regency.
Lecture date:
13 November 2006, BAFTA, London
The British photographer Paul Graham, (born
1956) has been consistently among the most innovative of today's leading artist
photographers. And it was his work that was exhibited under the spotlight at
Lecture 3.
His work often defies easy categorisation, borrowing and remixing traditional genres of photographic practice - combining landscape and war photography, or colour and documentary, and what we consider a portrait . The journal of the lecture is an inspiring piece - worthy of a place in any creative individual's book collection. Combined with Graham's work the journal is further enhanced with the stock on which it was printed. It was the first of the series that was printed on a coated stock - Regency; a family of FSC certified and value added paper and boards. The paper printed exceptionally and was flattered further by yet another feast of artistic genius.
In an extract from his foreword to the journal, Adrian Shaughnessy writes,
"Along with Nan Goldin, Thomas Streuth, Andreas Gursky, Philip diCorcia and a handful of others, he is widely regarded as one of the pre-eminent figures in contemporary art photography. Graham is a poet of the mundane. He infuses his pictures of dismal interiors and gloomy landscapes with an unexpected lyricism.
In our daily lives we frequently encounter the sort of scenes Graham photographed for his New Europe (1993) project: overflowing ashtrays; discarded piles of valueless coins; holes in the ground. Yet we rarely view these glimpses of the mundane as being in the least poetic. But when Graham photographs a hole in the ground he invests it with resonance and meaning. How does he manage this?"
To register your interest for a copy of the Paul Graham limited edition journal that was released on the evening of Lecture 3, click here. Or if you just want to learn more about the family of products featured in the Regency range, click on the logo above right.
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His work often defies easy categorisation, borrowing and remixing traditional genres of photographic practice - combining landscape and war photography, or colour and documentary, and what we consider a portrait . The journal of the lecture is an inspiring piece - worthy of a place in any creative individual's book collection. Combined with Graham's work the journal is further enhanced with the stock on which it was printed. It was the first of the series that was printed on a coated stock - Regency; a family of FSC certified and value added paper and boards. The paper printed exceptionally and was flattered further by yet another feast of artistic genius.
In an extract from his foreword to the journal, Adrian Shaughnessy writes,
"Along with Nan Goldin, Thomas Streuth, Andreas Gursky, Philip diCorcia and a handful of others, he is widely regarded as one of the pre-eminent figures in contemporary art photography. Graham is a poet of the mundane. He infuses his pictures of dismal interiors and gloomy landscapes with an unexpected lyricism.
In our daily lives we frequently encounter the sort of scenes Graham photographed for his New Europe (1993) project: overflowing ashtrays; discarded piles of valueless coins; holes in the ground. Yet we rarely view these glimpses of the mundane as being in the least poetic. But when Graham photographs a hole in the ground he invests it with resonance and meaning. How does he manage this?"
To register your interest for a copy of the Paul Graham limited edition journal that was released on the evening of Lecture 3, click here. Or if you just want to learn more about the family of products featured in the Regency range, click on the logo above right.
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Collaboration: Lecture Series
Regency
