http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/d3b31b9c-5a50-11e2-bc93-00144feab49a.html
◇ About Francis Hodgson | Francis Hodgson
I am the Professor in the Culture of Photography at the University of Brighton, in England.
I am the photography critic of the Financial Times and a former head of the photographs department at Sotheby’s.
I am one of the founders of the Prix Pictet.
I am an art adviser specialising in fine photographs. I advise on many aspects of collections (public and private). I also help photographers to market their work and act as a consultant to various image-centred businesses such as stock libraries.
http://francishodgson.com/about/
◇ Paul Grahamn - A1: The Great North Road on Vimeo
Seeing as this books isn't easy to come by, I have made a quick video found here. My apologies for the book's condition but thanks to CU Photography's library as I don't have a copy myself. Let's just say it is good to see a book has been so loved!
(This video is intended to give a feel for the layout, design and sequencing of the book, for a selection of high quality images from this book, head over here paulgrahamarchive.com/a1.html#a)
From the publisher:
Photographer Paul Graham spent two years completing this documentary on the life and landscape of the Great North Road. Throughout 1981 and 1982 he made numerous trips along the A1, crossing and recrossing the length of the nation to record every aspect of life at the verge of this great road. The photographs reproduced in this book build not only into a significant documentary of the A1, but also provide a thread along which we can travel the Great North Road, deep into the nation’s heart, and weave a picture of England in the 1980s.
◇ The Great Leap Sideways ("It has become a work about seeing, in times of...)
"It has become a work about seeing, in times of freely chosen short-sightedness. A work about reflection, in times of stupidity. A work about time and history, in times of seemingly timeless youth. It is a work against the peddling (or rubbishing) of all values - without finding fresh ones, without finding a new ideology."
— Urs Stahel “Thoughtful Traveller” in New Europe by Paul Graham [Fotomuseum Winterthur, 1993]
http://greatleapsideways.tumblr.com/post/70985634637/it-has-become-a-work-about-seeing-in-times-of
◇ Paul Graham: Photographs 1981–2006 - Read the Education Resource - Whitechapel Gallery
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Education_Resource.pdf
