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End of an age
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Paul Graham is one of the best photobook makers ever (Beyond Caring, Troubled Land, A1.Great North Road. A Shimmer of Possibility, New Europe). In End of an Age, British photographer Paul Graham captures the threshold moments that mark the ending of adolescence, the small slice of time between youthful indulgence and the emerging awareness of adult responsibilities. His photographs resonate between these two poles: between full-on consciousness and escape: between staring the world in the eye or shying away; between seeing the world with shocking clarity and the desire to hide oneself from that reality: turn away, get drunk, close your eyes, get stoned. It is a situation that each of knows and remembers all too well, a traumatic time. And it is often the threshold of a profound psychological transformation -- a chartless sea in which one might successfully navigate, get becalmed, or simply drown. Paul Graham's pictures consider this point in one's life, and reflect upon its trauma, uncertainty and pain. The photographs alternate between ultra-sharp direct flash images where every detail is minutely recorded, and the opposite extreme, with loose available-light photographs, saturated with color, blurred and sometimes poorly focused. First and foremost, these compelling color images
End of an Age is a meditation on the transition from adolescence to adulthood at the end of the postwar order. British photographer Paul Graham captures the threshold moments that mark the ending of adolescence—the small slice of time between youthful indulgence and the emerging awareness of adult responsibilities. The work features ultra-sharp direct flash images alternating with blurred, available-light photographs, offering an elegiac look at European youth culture at the turn of the millennium. It is a long, inquiring study that resonates between hazy out-of-focus portraits and sharp colorscapes.
Bibliographic Details
| Author | Paul Graham |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Scalo |
| Place of publication | Zurich |
| Year | 1999 |
| Edition | First edition |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 3908247179 |
| Collation | 104 pp. |
| Language | English |
| Dimensions | 24,5 x 32,5 |
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