In 1979, photographer David Graham began using an 8-by-10-view camera. Although that isn’t necessarily remarkable, the record of America Graham produced during the past 35 years is exceptional for the scope of the work and that it was produced with such a cumbersome piece of equipment. A tightly edited collection of the work that includes only one image from each of the 35 years is currently on view at Gallery 339 in Philadelphia.
When Graham began shooting, he was driving around in a beat-up Volvo with his 8-by-10 Deardorff—“with all the trimmings,” he said—in the trunk, and he was always on the lookout for a possible photograph. In 1981, Graham and his wife took a cross-country trip from Pennsylvania to California without any specific destination in mind apart from finding images.
While a graduate student at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, Graham spent a significant amount of time studying the work of his photographer-friends Emmet Gowin and Jim Dow, as well as the work of other photographers they suggested. All of it would help form Graham’s aesthetic. “The camera was so slow and expensive to shoot, I wanted to get the most out of it,” Graham said about his style. “So I loaded in detail, color, subject, structure, historical references, and humor—I wanted everything.”
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