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Paul Graham

Louisiana (Man Walking Cat), 2005

PAUL GRAHAM
STAFFORD, REINO UNIDO / UNITED KINGDOM, 1956
Louisiana, (Man Walking Cat), 2005
Impresión digital por pigmentos sobre Dibond / Digital pigment print mounted on Dibond
Doce fotografías / Twelve photographs
Medida de la instalación / Installation dimensions, 60 x 700 cm Adquirido / Acquired 2012

Paul Graham travels and photographs people in everyday scenarios. Traveling through the USA
—where he has lived for almost fifteen years— he perpetuates a tradition started by the likes of Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander or Garry Winogrand. He often focuses on the non-sites that form the suburban landscape: interstitial spaces, places of transit which people move through routinely without stopping, and interestingly enough are quite telling about a culture. His camera captures passers-by in those nondescript environments in sequence, thus framing an instant and turning it in a narrative. The two characters in this series —a man and a cat— may have something in common, although maybe just the fact they happen to be in the same place at the same time. Put together, the series of twelve successive shots function like a film: they seem to capture time in a stop-motion fashion and the spread provides a sensation of a narrative; precisely revealing the normalcy of everyday life.

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Paul Graham

Stafford, United Kingdom, 1956

His pictures place emphasis on symbols and images that usually go unnoticed, highlighting details of the political and social context in which we live. He displays an interest in photography where sensitivity is attached with the ephemeral. Each series of photographs is an opportunity to challenge the general public, as well as a useful reminder that the camera is a highly effective instrument of self-expression, cultural criticism, invention and visual pleasure.

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