In the year 1981, Graham achieved his inaugural masterpiece, A1: The Great North Road. This groundbreaking series of color photographs, captured along A1, Great Britain’s lengthiest numbered road, shook the foundations of traditional British photography dominated by black-and-white social documentary. Graham’s use of color film in the early 1980s pioneered a new wave in the genre, inspiring a generation of artists including Martin Parr, Richard Billingham, Simon Norfolk, and Nick Waplington to embrace color.
In 2011, The Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired the complete set of prints from The Great North Road, the very set Graham utilized to create his first book in 1983. Over the course of the past thirty years, Graham has explored different corners of the world, crafting twelve distinct collections of work. His talent has been celebrated in more than eighty solo exhibitions worldwide.
www.ftn-books.com has the THE END OF AN AGE invitation now available featuring Untitled no. 22
