Pat Graham is the photographer who best captured the live performances of America’s most loved & influential independent musicians during the 1990’s & early 00’s. His photos represent not just the bands but the scenes; the venues, audiences and instruments. He shows not only the public perfomances, but the behind-the-scenes; back stages, tour vans,hotel rooms, studios & record labels, bringing a very intimate perspective to his work.
Silent Pictures is his first book of photographs.Silent Pictures will be out in fall. The intro is by Ian MacKaye and the afterword is by Cynthia Connolly.
Mail order signed copies are available now from Akashic
*Modest Mouse, Ted Leo, Bikini Kill, Fugazi, and The Shins* are just some of the subjects in Pat Graham's visually stunning first book. Many of these photographs shaped the iconography of '90s underground rock.
*Pat Graham* has been a photographer for nineteen years. His work has centered around musicians and has been used on dozens of albums. He spent years on the road with bands, especially Modest Mouse. Capturing all aspects of being a musician (playing music, and living the life). His debut book covers this ground and more.
Pat's photos have appeared in every major music publication in Europe and the U.S. His work is part of the permanent collection in the Experience Music Project museum in Seattle and The Arlington Cultural Affairs in Virginia.
He currently lives in London,England where he continues taking pictues and running 96 Gillespie, the gallery he co-founded with his wife Melanie Standage.
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Graham began shooting in high-school in Milwaukee, WI, but soon relocated to Washington DC where he worked extensively in and around the local & national music industry for over 10 years. During this period he toured endlessly with bands such as Modest Mouse, the Make Up, Tortoise & June of 44 across the USA and Europe.
His photos have been published in magazines including Rolling Stone, Spin Magazine, Art Forum, NME, Dazed & Confused, VICE, Tokion, Swindle, Raygun, the Village Voice, the Washington Post, Washington City Paper, the Guardian, Punk Life, Punk Planet, Copper Press, Time Out, Guitar World, and the Chicago Reader; as well as books ‘Dance of Days’, ‘Cinderella’s Big Score’, Fodor’s ‘Rock & Roll Travel Guide’, and the Dischord Illustrated Catalogue.
In 2000 he moved his base to London, England. He co-founded contemporary art gallery, 96 Gillespie; a not for profit gallery dedicated to exhibiting American artists alongside their English counterparts in the UK.
He works & exhibits internationally, frequently in collaboration with his wife, photographer/designer Melanie Standage.
His photos can be found in the Experence Music Project Museum, Seattle WA, the Arlington Municipal Art Collection, Arlington VA and in private collections around the world.
Solo Exhibitions 2007 Retrospect (with Melanie Standage), Space 1026, Philadelphia
2005/2006
Retrospect (with Melanie Standage), Cultuur Centrum Luchtbal, Antwerp BE
Past Perfect (with Melanie Standage), Transformer Gallery, Washington DC
The Wildebeest (with Melanie Standage), 96 Gillespie, London, UK
2004
Past Perfect (with Melanie Standage), 96 Gillespie, London
Hot Girls, Cool Guys & Other Stories (with Melanie Standage), New Space, Portland OR
2003
Hot Girls, Cool Guys (with Melanie Standage), Mission Space, Baltimore MD
2002
Hot Girls, Cool Guys (with Melanie Standage), Comet, Milwaukee WI
Select Group Exhibitions 2006
Heartfelt, 96 Gillespie, London
Fresh, The Renaissance Society, Chicago Summer Exhibition, 96 Gillespie, London
2005
Everyone Sees the Sun, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, SW
We Don’t Know You, Camp Fig, Austin TX
Move 13 (curated by Rich Jacobs), Clementine Gallery, NYC
Move 12 (curated by Rich Jacobs), New Image Gallery, LA
Move 11 (curated by Rich Jacobs), 96 Gillespie, London
1997
The Ascent of Western Civilization: American Independent Rock, 1976-1991, Threadwaxing Space, NYC, NY
1996-1998
Cynthia Connolly & Pat Graham’s Touring Photo show (with Cynthia Connolly), venues across the USA 1996-1998.
ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK 1997 Publications
2007
‘Silent Pictures’ by Pat Graham. Akashic Books, NYC
Kellehar, Rachel. ‘Grand Designs Artists: Pat Graham & Melanie Standage’, Rocksound issue 95 April.
Mullen, Amy. ‘Editor’s Pick. Pat Graham & Melanie Standage: Retrospect’, Philadelphia Weekly, Jan 3, 2007
Solarski, Mattthew. “Morrissey, Shins, Air, Les Savy Fav Say "Cheese", Pitchfork Media, Jan 3, 2007
2006 ‘Punk is Dead: Punk is Everything!’ by Bryan Ray Turcotte and Doug Woods,
