Grant Mudford

Grant Mudford. Born 1944 in Sydney, Australia. Australian contemporary photographer.

From 1963 to 1964 he studied architecture at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. From 1965 to 1974, he established a commercial photography studio in Sydney and worked widely in advertising, fashion, magazine editorial and theatre. He also worked on numerous short films as a cinematographer. In 1971 he won a special award for lighting, at the Australian Film Awards, for ‘The Widow.’

He began exhibiting as a still photographer from 1972, firstly in Sydney, Australia. In 1974 he was awarded a Visual Arts Board Travel Grant, from the Australia Council for the Arts, with a program of intensive travel and work in the United States. He moved to Los Angeles permanently in 1977.

In 1980 he secured a Photographers' Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. From 1983 he undertook editorial assignments for American and international publications in the U.S. and abroad, including: Harper's Bazaar, Esquire, Fortune, Westways, House and Garden, Architectural Digest, Interiors, Vanity Fair, Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, Traveller, L.A. Style, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Architecture, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel & Leisure, and Interview (magazine).

Mudford was the subject of episode six of the television series 'Visual Instincts' (Artemis International, 1989).

In 1990 and 1991 he photographed extensively throughout the U.S. for an exhibition of the work of architect Louis Kahn, organized by Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In 2005, a photograph of Phillips Exeter Academy Library, designed by Louis I. Kahn, was one of twelve photographs selected for the commemorative stamp program.

Major exhibitions

* Mudford has been exhibiting regularly in Australia, the United States and abroad since 1972.
* 1983: ‘A Decade of Australian Photography 1972-82,’ Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
* 1989: Barbara Mann Performing Arts Hall, Edison College, Ft. Myers, FL; curated by Robert Rauschenberg.
* 1991 and 1992: Photographs featured in ‘Louis I. Kahn: In the Realm of Architecture,’ organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The exhibition travelled to Philadelphia Museum of Art; Centres Georges Pompidou, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
* 1993: ‘Not Painting,’ curated by John Baldessari and Alma Ruiz from the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
* 1995: ‘On The Edge: Australian Photographers of the 70's,’ from the collection of the Australian National Gallery: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

Selected references

* Michael Duncan (2003) “Grant Mudford at Rosamund Felsen,” "Art in America", September: 131-2.
* Editor (1977) ‘Grant Mudford - American Photographs 1975-6,’ "Creative Camera", April: 128-135.
* Gloria Geraci, ed. & Grant Mudford (2003) "Symphony: Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall", Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
* Lisa Lyons & Grant Mudford (2000) "Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty", J. Paul Getty Museum
* Grant Mudford (1979) "Grant Mudford, photographs: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution", Smithsonian Institution Press
* Grant Mudford (1986) "Grant Mudford", Gallery Min
* Max Pam, ed. (1989) ‘Grant Mudford’, "Visual Instincts: Contemporary Australian Photography", AGPS: 121-147.
* Kathryn Smith & Grant Mudford (2001) "Schindler House", Harry Abrams

External links

* [http://www.rosamundfelsen.com/mudford/index.html Rosamund Felsen Gallery]
* [http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2002/Articles1202/GMudfordA.html Review by Mario Cutajar]
* [http://collection.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/results.do;jsessionid=12679E8694E85F2BAA3628798D46C8A3?view=detail&db=object&id=25778 Art Gallery of New South Wales]
* [http://www.lumiere-editions.com/mudford7.htm Lumiere Editions]