Brian Graham

Goin’ Down the Road with Robert Frank

Brian Graham, Ai Weiwei, Rudy Wurlitzer , John T. Hill

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English

Steidl Verlag
30 November 2023

Individual photographers

Photography provides us with indispensable reserves of ore for our memories, which can be smelted and cast again. - Ai Weiwei

Robert Frank carefully entwined his life and work, yet the man behind the camera always remained enigmatic. Goin' Down the Road with Robert Frank is a rare insider's look at Frank's world by his longtime friend and assistant (both in and out of the darkroom) Brian Graham. Graham's photos, made between 1979 and 2019, take us behind the scenes of Frank at work-on location for his 1987 film Candy Mountain, photographing Allen Ginsberg, inspecting contact sheets-and into his private life: laughing with his wife June Leaf, exploring a thrift shop, even fixing the roof of his Bleecker Street studio. Candid and spontaneous, Graham's images are often arranged in filmic sequences that create a sense of events unfolding in real time. Framed by nostalgic notes (by Graham as well as novelist and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer) and an introduction by Ai Weiwei (another of Graham's friends from the Lower East Side in the 1980s and '90s), these images form an intimate and original portrait of Robert Frank, a central figure both in Graham's photography and the history of the medium.

Designed by: John T. Hill, Brian Graham
Text by: Brian Graham, Ai Weiwei, Rudy Wurlitzer
Imprint: Steidl Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 220mm, Width: 200mm,
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9783969991756
ISBN 10: 3969991757
Pages: 84
Publication Date: 30 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Born in Glace Bay, Canada, in 1951, Brian Graham earned his Bachelor of Arts from St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, in 1973. He moved to New York in 1981 to pursue photography and there assisted and printed for Robert Frank for more than a decade. He also printed the archives of Allen Ginsberg (chronicling the Beat years), the Walker Evans Estate and Rosalind Fox Solomon. Graham has photographed throughout Africa, Europe and the Americas, and exhibited in New York, Berlin and Lisbon.