PAUL GRAHAM – A1 – THE GREAT NORTH ROAD
2020-10-19A1 – The Great North Road was Paul Graham’s first book, published in 1983. Uniting the tradition of social documentary with the fresh approach of new colour, A1 – The Great North Road was transformative on photography in the UK and paved the way for a new generation of British colour photographers to emerge. Spanning the full length of England and into Edinburgh, Graham travelled repeatedly along the ‘Great North Road’ with a large format camera, to record the people, buildings, and landscape of early 1980’s Britain. Now 40 years old, this book is as much art as it is a historical document of the years of Margaret Thatcher’s government and the UK’s declining industrial base.
To coincide with the book’s republication, an exhibition of vintage prints from the series will be on show from October at Huxley-Parlour Gallery.
Originally self-published, MACK Books have published a new edition of the book which celebrates the seminal series.
Opposite – Café Assistants, Compass Café, Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, November 1982
Exhibition runs through to December 18th, 2020
Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts
183 Main Street
Brattleboro
VT 05301
