David Graham (photographer)

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David Graham (b. 1952, Pennsylvania) is an American artist photographer and professor at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. He currently lives and works in Newtown, PA. Embracing popular forms of American photography (the snapshot, family portrait, and vacation photo), David Graham explores contemporary culture through the idiosyncratic nature of the American landscape. His work is in many collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Phila, PA; the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; the International Center of Photography, NY, NY; and the Brooklyn Museum, NY, NY.


Grants


  • English Speaking Union, Phila., PA 1990 & 1987
  • ASMP/Nikon Emerging Photographer Award, NY 1986


Monographs


  • Declaring Independence, David Graham, Pond Press, 2004
  • The Christmas List, David Graham, Quirk Books. 2003
  • Alone Together, David Graham, Pond Press, 2002
  • Taking Liberties, David Graham, Pond Press, 2001
  • Land of the Free, David Graham, Aperture, 1999
  • Ay, Cuba!, w/Andrei Codrescu, St. Martins Press, 1999
  • David Graham,Past & Present Tense, Lightwork, 1998
  • Road Scholar, w/Andrei Codrescu, Hyperion, 1993
  • Only in America, David Graham, Knopf, 1991
  • American Beauty, David Graham, Aperture 1987


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