Search Results: Titles starting with A from Ipy Books

Softcover in VG/Near fine condition, illustrated throughout in color, 8.25 x 11 inches, unpaginated [96 pages].
A1 - The Great North Road was Paul Graham's first book, published in 1983. It had a startling impact on British photography. Uniting the tradition of social documentary with the fresh approach of new color, A1 - The Great North Road was transformative on photography in the UK and paved the way for a new generation of British color photographers to emerge, from Nick Waplington to Anna Fox, Richard Billingham to Tom Wood. Spanning the full length of England and into Edinburgh, Graham travelled repeatedly along the 'Great North Road' with a large format camera, to record the people, buildings, and landscape of early 1980's Britain.
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Hardcover, no dust jacket as issued, some shelfwear on cover, else near fine, 128 pp.
"Paul Graham's photographs touch upon the social fracture of America - the great divide between the included and excluded, blacks and whites, haves and have-nots. Taking on a simple topic, of late dealt with only through cliché photojournalism, American Night embraces neglected territory in a series of shocking images that sit on the fence between art and document. Graham's images blind and overwhelm the viewer with a feeling akin to stepping out of a sheltered place and into the sunlight.
Drained of color, shadow and form, they resonate with the lives of those they portray... and then the sequence snaps, either to a vibrant full-color image of a freshly minted dream house, complete with a blue sky and green grass of unattainable perfection, or to an intensely dark street portrait... before returning to the endless blinding whiteness of everyday life. Beyond their paucity or wealth of color these images contrast one… Read More