Lot 266: PAUL GRAHAM

PAUL GRAHAM

A1. The Great North Road. Bristol: Grey Editions, 1983.

Oblong quarto (280 x 210mm). 40 colour photographs. Original grey bubble-grained cloth, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket.

FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY OF THE VERY RARE HARDCOVER ISSUE, SIGNED BY GRAHAM. A1 is one of the decade's most important British photobooks, and early evidence of Graham's distinctive interpretation of the documentary mode. Graham 'has continually pushed the boundaries of documentary practice' (The Photobook). Only approximately 75 copies of the hardcover were produced. Cf. The Photobook, vol. II, pp.55, 291.

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