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Graham Smith (photographer)
British photographer and woodworker
Graham Smith (born ) is a photographer from Middlesbrough, England, who was particularly active in photographing Middlesbrough and the north-east of England in the s and s. Smith curtailed his career as a photographer in , since when he has been a professional woodworker.
Life and work
Smith studied at the Middlesbrough College of Art and later the Royal College of Art (London).[1] In the s he was among the photographers central to the Side Gallery, and created a series of photographs that showed working-class people in the north of England that were in a documentary style but were in fact montages.[2] Work from the s would show people within townscapes, and in the words of David Alan Mellor, were "atmospheric, steeped in popular (and personal) memory &#; dark, romantic places with all the melancholy attributed to Eugène Atget's familiar locations".[2]:&#;&#;Another Country, a joint exhibition with Chris Killip held in London in , was generally well reviewed but to some appeared passé in the light of the new "postmodern" work of Martin Parr and others.[3]
Smith curtailed his career as a photographer in , since when he has been a professional woodworker.
His writing has appeared in Granta.
Smith's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London).[4]
Exhibitions
- Documents of the North East. With Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, James Cleet, and Robert Carling.Famous photographer biography Photography and travel go hand in hand—landmarks and scenic vistas everywhere are thronged by tourists with their eye to the view finder, trying to capture their memories on film or in megapixel. When the pioneers of photography, Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre, made their inventions public in , advocates for the new technology immediately recognized photography’s capability to.
Side Gallery (Newcastle),
- Three Perspectives on Photography: Recent British Photography.Hayward Gallery, London, June&#;July With Thomas Cooper, Brian Griffin, Raymond Moore, Roger Palmer, Martin Parr, Aileen Ferriday, Christine Hobbeheydar, Yve Lomax, Sarah McCarthy, Jo Spence, Valerie Wilmer, Victor Burgin, Robert Golden, Hackney Flashers, Alexis Hunter.[6]
- North Tyneside. With Isabella Jedrzejczyk, Markéta Luskačová, and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen.
Side Gallery (Newcastle),
- Consett Steel. Side Gallery (Newcastle),
- South Bank. Side Gallery (Newcastle),
- Another Country. With Chris Killip. Serpentine Gallery (London), [3]
- Quayside. With Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. Touring exhibition from the Side Gallery (Newcastle),
- No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain &#;Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Tullie House, Carlisle; Ujazdów Castle, Warsaw; Smith is one of a number of photographers shown.[7]
- Three from Britain. With Chris Killip and Martin Parr.
Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, March&#;May [8]
Writing
Notes
- ^Notice of Three from Britain exhibition,
- ^ abMellor, David Alan.Graham smith photographer biography books In this lively account of the partnership between photography and travel, Graham Smith explores the diverse ways pictures and travel have been partnered from the nineteenth century to today. Taking us from France and Italy to Egypt, Japan, and North America, Smith illustrates how photography was influenced by new forms of transcontinental.
No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain &#; From the British Council and the Arts Council Collections. London: Hayward Publishing, ISBN&#;:&#;33&#;
- ^ abBadger, Gerry. Chris Killip. London: Phaidon, ISBN&#; Page
- ^MoMA and V&A: notice of Three from Britain exhibition,
- ^Three Perspectives on Photography: Recent British Photography (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, ; ISBN&#;).
- ^Press releaseArchived 17 July at the Wayback Machine for the exhibition, British Council.
Accessed 11 April
- ^Rose Gallery press release for Three from Britain exhibition, Accessed 11 April