Description:
To take on street photography, particularly New York street photography, and make it new would be a daunting task for any contemporary photographer, and certainly for one who counts the greatest practitioners of the 1960s and 1970s, the likes of Winogrand and Friedlander, among those whose work he most admires. Yet this is the challenge which Paul Graham takes on in The Present. The images in this book come unbidden from the streets of New York, but are not quite what we might expect, for each moment is brought to us with its double - two images taken from the same location, separated only by the briefest fraction of time. The Present is the third in Paul Graham's trilogy of projects on America which began with American Night in 2003 and was followed in 2007 by a shimmer of possibility (winner of the Paris Photo Book Prize 2011 for the most significant photo book of the past 15 years). The Present takes Graham's reputation as a master of the book form to new heights, employing multiple gatefolds to convey passages of time and the unfolding of urban life.
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: Mack
Condition: The book is in very good condition.
Book Size: 25 x 31cm
Pages: 114 (including 13 gatefolds)
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 978-1-907946-18-9
Description:
To take on street photography, particularly New York street photography, and make it new would be a daunting task for any contemporary photographer, and certainly for one who counts the greatest practitioners of the 1960s and 1970s, the likes of Winogrand and Friedlander, among those whose work he most admires. Yet this is the challenge which Paul Graham takes on in The Present. The images in this book come unbidden from the streets of New York, but are not quite what we might expect, for each moment is brought to us with its double - two images taken from the same location, separated only by the briefest fraction of time. The Present is the third in Paul Graham's trilogy of projects on America which began with American Night in 2003 and was followed in 2007 by a shimmer of possibility (winner of the Paris Photo Book Prize 2011 for the most significant photo book of the past 15 years). The Present takes Graham's reputation as a master of the book form to new heights, employing multiple gatefolds to convey passages of time and the unfolding of urban life.
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: Mack
Condition: The book is in very good condition.
Book Size: 25 x 31cm
Pages: 114 (including 13 gatefolds)
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 978-1-907946-18-9