Graham Smith (photographer)

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Graham Smith (b. 1947) is a photographer from Middlesbrough, England, who was particularly active in photographing Middlesbrough and the northeast of England in the 1970s and 1980s.

Smith studied at the Middlesbrough College of Art and later the Royal College of Art (London). [ [http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=911&cid=131326 Notice] of "Three from Britain" exhibition, Artnet.com.] In the 1970s he was among the photographers central to the Side Gallery; and created a series of photographs that showed working-class people in the north of England that were in a documentary style but were in fact montages. [Mellor, "No Such Thing as Society," 33.] Work from the 1980s would show people within townscapes, in the words of David Alan Mellor, "atmospheric, steeped in popular (and personal) memory — dark, romantic places with all the melancholy attributed to Eugène Atget's familiar locations". [Mellor, "No Such Thing as Society," 110.] "Another Country," a joint exhibition with Chris Killip held in London in 1985, was generally well reviewed but to some appeared "passé" in the light of the new "postmodern" work of Martin Parr and others.Badger, "Chris Killip," 11.]

Smith curtailed his career as a photographer in 1990; since then he has been a professional woodworker and has also written; the latter work has appeared in "Granta."

Smith's photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London). [MoMA and V&A: [http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=911&cid=131326 notice] of "Three from Britain" exhibition, Artnet.com.]

Exhibitions

* "Documents of the North East." With Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, James Cleet, and Robert Carling. Side Gallery (Newcastle), 1977." [http://www.amber-online.com/exhibitions/exhibitions-1977-to-1999 Side Gallery Exhibitions 1977–1994] ", "Amber Online." Accessed 11 April 2008.]
* "North Tyneside." With Isabella Jedrzejczyk, Markéta Luskačová, and Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. Side Gallery (Newcastle), 1981.
*"Consett Steel." Side Gallery (Newcastle), 1982.
*"South Bank." Side Gallery (Newcastle), 1984.
*"Another Country." With Chris Killip. Serpentine Gallery (London), 1985.
*"Quayside." With Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen. Touring exhibition from the Side Gallery (Newcastle), 1994.
*"No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1968–1987." Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Tullie House, Carlisle; Ujazdów Castle, Warsaw; Smith is one of a number of photographers shown. [ [http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-aad-no-such-thing-as-society.htm Press release] for the exhibition, British Council. Accessed 11 April 2008.]
*"Three from Britain." With Chris Killip and Martin Parr. Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, March–May 2008. [Rose Gallery [http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=911&cid=131326 press release] for "Three from Britain" exhibition, Artnet.com.]

Writing

*"Albert Smith." "Granta" 95: "Loved Ones." Granta, 2006. ISBN 0903141884.

Notes

References

*Badger, Gerry. "Chris Killip." London: Phaidon, 2001. ISBN 0-7148-4028-9.
*Mellor, David Alan. "No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1967–87: From the British Council and the Arts Council Collections." London: Hayward Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-85332-265-5.
*Rose Gallery [http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Exhibitions.asp?gid=911&cid=131326 press release] for "Three from Britain" exhibition, Artnet.com. Accessed 11 April 2008. Also appears at [http://www.artslant.com/la/events/show/15248-three-from-britain-chris-killip-martin-parr-graham-smith this page] at Artslant.com. Accessed 11 April 2008.
*Schad, Ed. " [http://www.artslant.com/la/articles/show/1019 A Look at Three from Britain] ". "Artslant.com," 2008. Review of the exhibition. Accessed 11 April 2008.
*" [http://www.photoinduced.com/archives/890 Three Photographers from Britain: Nothing but Class] ". "Photoinduced.com," 2008. Accessed 11 April 2008. A description of the exhibition "Three Photographers from Britain"; includes a reported interview with Smith.