Paul Graham, Pittsburgh (detail), a shimmer possibility, 2004. © Paul Graham; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Paul Graham, Man walking with blue Bags, Augusta, American Night, 2002. © Paul Graham; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Paul Graham, Broadway,3rd June 2010, 2.10.12 pm, The Present, 2010, two prints. © Paul Graham; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Paul Graham, House with red Volkswagen, California, American Night, 2001. © Paul Graham; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Paul Graham, New Orleans, a shimmer possibility, 2003-06, 36 × 47 inches, © Paul Graham; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Paul Graham: The Whiteness of the Whale

High Museum of Art

Featuring work by: Paul Graham

Paul Graham (born 1956), an internationally renowned British photographer, has been at the forefront of contemporary photography since the 1980s. His work is celebrated for its unique blend of documentary observation and conceptual innovation. This exhibition brings together three of Graham’s most groundbreaking bodies of work, made across the United States between 1998 and 2011: American Night (1998–2002), a shimmer of possibility (2004–2006), and The Present (2009–2001). Linked by a common subject matter, the work examines the state of race and social class in America while using the very nature of sight and the medium of photography as metaphors for inequality, invisibility, and the ways photographs inflect our perceptions of the world. Paul Graham: The Whiteness of the Whale is organized by Pier 24 Photography and features nearly forty works, ranging from individual large-scale photographs to sequences of over a dozen images.

Exhibition Jun 24 - Oct 22

Artist's Talk Oct 21 02:00 PM


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