Research Catalog

Title

Declaring independence / photographs by David Graham ; introduction by Peter Wilkinson.

Author

Graham, David, 1952-

Publication

Boston, MA : Pond Press ; St. Paul, MN : Distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Catherine Edelman Gallery

Description

78 p. : chiefly col. ill.; 24 x 29 cm.

Summary

Declaring Independence is the fourth in David Graham's trilogy of photographic books about the American cultural landscape. Unable to stop searching the country for the odd, unusual and colorful, Graham has continued on his quest to find out how Americans express themselves through their environments. The result of his latest journey is this book of photographs which delves further into the complex weave of image, symbol and reality that we see as America at its finest. From coast to coast, from dinosaurs to space ships, Graham has put together an engaging and joyous collection of photographs that show what it means to be an American. David Graham is a photographer who lives in two worlds. To pay the rent, he is a freelance photographer who shoots for magazines such as Time, Newsweek and the New York Times Magazine. He also makes photographs that come from his own private muse, yielding work that addresses the American cultural landscape. These photographs have been collected in five previous books, Alone Together (Pond Press 2002), Taking Liberties (Pond Press 2001), Land of the Free (Aperture 1999), Only in America (Knopf 1991) and American Beauty (Aperture 1987). These photographs are also to be found in major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Art Institute of Chicago and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is also an associate professor at the Univeristy of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. Peter Wilkinson (Introduction) is a writer with a wide following that results for his work as a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine since 1988.

Subject

• Graham, David, 1952- > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• Signs and signboards > United States > Exhibitions
• United States > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition, pictorial works

Note

• "This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition, David Graham: Declaring Independence, June 4-July 3, 2004 ... Catherine Edelman Gallery"--Colophon.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0966677684

LCCN

^^2003195120

OCLC

• 54954768
• SCSB-12707069

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library